Any large scale metacomputing/distributed computing environment will be shaped by and shape all 5 classes of applications on previous foil
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Even if only aimed at high end applications, the system will be influenced by and influence the "Object Web" or "commodity software infrastructure" which is here defined as "mass-market"/business IntraNet (low to low) use of Internet/distributed Information System
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Parallel Computing systems can be viewed as a special case of a Metacomputer
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Perhaps one will need a stripped production environment for highest performance but
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best program development environment is likely to be based on commodity technologies as can leverage and track wonderful software aimed at broad based distributed computing
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