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Foil 24 More General 3 Level Software Model Functionality Performance Tradeoff

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Building from bottom of Computing pyramid starts with high functionality software which has an architecture that can be augmented with high performance
3 Levels of Software
  • Client Interfaces
  • Middleware based on high functionality Web Integration based on network of Web (Java) Servers
  • that can "escape" (as in machine language subroutine) to a high performance layer which is viewed as one of many services -- CORBA, Databases are other services
One universal language -- Java for all layers

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