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Foil 5 What is Commodity Software

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems RCI North American Annual Member Executive Conference October 13-15 98 -- October 15 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 The world is building a wonderful distributed computing (information processing) environment using Web (dissemination) and distributed object (CORBA COM, Java, XML) technologies
2 This includes Java, Web-linked databases and the essential standards such as HTML(documents), VRML(3D objects), JDBC (Java database connectivity).
  • The standard interfaces are essential in that they allow modular (component based) software
3 We will "just" add high performance to this commodity distributed infrastructure
  • Respecting architecture of the object web, should allow us to naturally use improved software as it produced
4 The alternative strategy starts with HPCC technologies (such as MPI,HPF) and adds links to commodity world. This approach does not easily track evolution of commodity systems and so has large maintenance costs
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