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Foil 28 Alternative Supercomputing Resources

From HPCC Current Status: Hardware MPP Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

Vast numbers of under utilised workstations available to use.
Huge numbers of unused processor cycles and resources that could be put to good use in a wide variety of applications areas.
Reluctance to buy Supercomputer due to their cost and short life span.
Distributed compute resources fit better into todays funding model.


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