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Foil 32 Distributed Systems: Some Problems

From HPCC Current Status: Hardware MPP Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
High Initial and Maintenance Costs
  • - Cost of distributed software - Systems support staff - Technical expertise
Applications Development
  • - Relatively immature technology with few standards- Immature software development tools - Applications difficult and time consuming to develop - Difficult to tune and optimise across all platforms- Load balancing
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