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Foil 9 Isn't the Web hardware and software too slow to be interesting for HPCC? - IV

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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Internet is quite slow and getting slower but in fact many Web activities focus on IntraNets -- domain and perhaps geographically specialized hardware running pervasive Web Softwate
  • vBNS and I-Way or ATM connected PC/Workstation clusters are our typical targets as HPCC IntraNets
Superficially one can state goal as adding to the distributed computing model of the Web, the HPCC lessons and algorithms needed for high performance and tight synchronization of multiple servers and clients (Web is typically loose coarse grained coupling).
  • This is worth doing as Web has excellent productivity software

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