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Distributed Computing Network of Workstations (NOW). The Computational Model for the 21st Century National Technology Grid Ken Dozier - USCETTC. Distributed Computing. Attempts to utilize the combined resources of independent computational units Old idea, New Money - $300 M NSF Provides
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Distributed ComputingNetwork of Workstations(NOW) The Computational Model for the 21st Century National Technology Grid Ken Dozier - USCETTC now.ppt
Distributed Computing • Attempts to utilize the combined resources of independent computational units • Old idea, New Money - $300 M NSF • Provides • large computing resource • reliability • scalability • Price to Performance now.ppt
Convergence of New Technologies • Networking • NGI, • ATM, Wireless ATM, Smart Switches • Computing • Large PC market, 2X every year • Memory Storage • Faster, Cheaper, 4X every 3 years • Disk Storage • Bigger, Cheaper, 4X every 3 years now.ppt
High Performance Network now.ppt
Massive Problem • 26 Billion Floating Point Operations • 3.9 Gigabytes of Input • 51 Megabytes of Output • Compare 16 Node Gray $30 M • To 256 Node IBM RS6000 $4 M • 10X price to performance now.ppt
Better, Faster, Cheaper now.ppt
ETTCA NASA Regional Technology Transfer Center usc.edu/dept/NASA now.ppt