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Foil 4 Some Relevant Technical Trends

From Web Technology as the basis of Portable High Quality HPCN Software Review Meeting of PSPTA Group Manchester UK, Garland Texas(E-systems), Winnipeg Canada(HPCS'97) -- July 1,9,12 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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