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Foil 7 Classes of Grid Applications

From What Applications are Grids Good for? Grids 98 Drake Hotel Chicago -- July 27-28 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


"Big Queue in the Sky" -- seamless (one at a time) access to multiple heterogeneous supercomputers
Collaborative access to specialized scientific instruments and visualization (a few linked systems)
"Parameter Studies" (pleasingly parallel)
Application Integration (SBA etc.)
PC, Workstation, Origin 2000/SP2 clusters (parallel computing built from distributed components)
Distributed Modeling and Simulation (using geographically distributed computers to simulate geographically distributed systems)
TeleMedicine and Distance Education



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