Directions - Metacomputing

• Emergence of PC commodity systems

  • Pentium based, NT or Linux driven
    • At UTK cluster of 14 (dual) Pentium based
      • 7.2 Gflop/s

• Complementing “Supercomputing” with Metacomputing ? Computational Grid

• Last decade - lost decade from software standpoint.

  • lack of standards; today PVM, MPI, Java ?

• Tools for Problem Solving Environments

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