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Foil 10 Some Other Important Issues -- Databases and Computing

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Web allows one to harness standard relational databases for powerful search of structured information -- Usenet databases, Electronic Mail, Manufacturing Data etc.
Parallel Computing is quite well understood but we can NOT implement capabilities we researched as field too small to support viable systems software industry
  • MPP software clearly harder than for PC's as architecture more complex but field is about 1% of that of PC industry
The Web allows one to implement HPCC in terms of a sustainable industry base
  • distributed memory parallel machines such as T3D SP2 Paragon should be set up with a web server on each node!

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