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Foil 6 NPAC Concepts : HPcc High Performance commodity computing

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) Madison Wisconsin Internet Server Performance Workshop -- June 23 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Distributed Computing becomes a commodity article (driven by Web Technologies)
2 Market niches for orthodox MPP style HPC are shrinking
3 NT clusters become a viable and more cost effective alternative to classic high performance systems
4 HLA/RTI from distributed simulation community natural for coarse grain while MPI/HPF/.... Natural for fine grain -- must integrate which we claim can be done using a multi tier architecture
5 Web/Commodity software - promising base to build new HPcc (commodity computing)
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