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Foil 14 Some Relevant Technical Trends

From The Use of Web Technologies (at NPAC) in HPCC Collaboration and Education Trip to Digital Corporation in New Hampshire -- May 8 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

PC and workstation clusters are of growing important and this typically distributed memory people's technology is contrasted with distributed shared memory tightly coupled MPP's.
Computational science moving to multidisciplinary (multi-component) applications
Corresponding growing use of databases (for data-intensive applications)
Interoperability between disparate heterogeneous platforms, support of multidisciplinary applications, and metacomputing are three related important areas
"full metacomputing" (decompose general problem on general networked resources) may not be relevant
The Web is delivering a new operating environment (WebWindows) and a rich distributed computing software infrastructure with especially excellent support for software integration
There is a need for a new scalable technical operating system (NT v UNIX v WebWindows)



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