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Foil 4 NPAC Concepts : HPcc High Performance commodity computing

From HPcc from HLA/WebFlow/JWORB Perspective Madison Wisconsin Internet server Performance Meeting and Sandia Review Albuquerque -- June 23 and 24 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
Distributed Computing becomes a commodity article (driven by Web Technologies)
Market niches for orthodox MPP style HPC are shrinking
NT clusters become a viable and more cost effective alternative to classic high performance systems
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
Web/Commodity software - promising base to build new HPcc (commodity computing)

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