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Foil 8 Isn't the Web hardware and software too slow to be interesting for HPCC? - III

From Master Foilset Web Based Network Technologies for Scientific Computing CRPC NSF Review August 15-16 1996 -- 16 August 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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Web Servers and HTTP are not as efficient as PVM/MPI daemons and their messaging but
  • Technology is rapidly changing -- HTTP-NG and new Java Servers will improve and further allow customization of services to HPCC with high performance when necessary
    • Don't customize now as Web Technology not stable enough yet!
Deploy Web technology first in education and in program development where high functionality of "Web Productivity Environment" is more important than performance
Then run production in classic "bare-bones" HPCC environment

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