Everybody now believes in COTS -- Consumer On the Shelf Technology -- one must use commercial building blocks for any specialized system whether it be a DoD weopens program or high end Supercomputer
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These are both Niche Markets!
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COTS for hardware can be applied to a greater or less extent
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Gordon Bell's SNAP system says we will only have ATM networks of PC's running WindowsNT
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SGI HP and IBM will take commodity processor nodes but link with custom switches (with different versions of distributed shared memory support)
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COTS for Software is less common but (I expect) to become much more common
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HPF producing HTTP not MPI with Java visulalization is an example of Software COTS
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