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Foil 106 Some More Detailed Trends in HPCC

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) General Research -- June-December 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Use of Commodity hardware: PC's offer best performance per dollar (Gigaflop for $30,000)
2 Use of Commodity software: Windows NT, COM, CORBA, web, Java, VRML ....
3 Use of Web to produce Seamless (universal) computer interfaces
4 Java replacing C++ and Fortran for Numerical Computation
5 Use of databases and collaboration technology to link people, databases and simulation
6 Integration of parallel and distributed computing
7 Use of distributed objects (CORBA) to encapsulated remote services
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