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