on GUIs and such things

[Shawn T. Rutledge]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:04:37PM -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
> At 08:45 PM 7/20/00 -0400, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> >Organizations that do a lot of number-crunching could benefit from
> >metacomputing; EROS provides better OS support for metacomputing than
> >anything else can or will.
> 
> What is metacomputing?

I was curious too... acc. to
http://www.eurotools.org/Sigs/Metacomputing.html
it's basically a virtual machine made from a network of other machines,
but in such a way that each task is distributed to the machine which
is best equipped to work on it.  Whereas the NOW approach works best
with machines that are all equal, I guess.

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