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Computer Clusters
Multiple computers connected via network.
Nodes are conventional workstations.
Network is conventional LAN.
Advantage: low costs.
Disadvantage: high latencies.
PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
Message passing package for clusters.
Basic operation like MPP; fault-tolerance must be considered.
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996