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During the last couple of years, a wide variety of tools and libraries have been developed to enable distributed computing and visualisation. This paper presents the technical background and the results of such a project meaned to couple different computational resources. A metacomputing implementation of MPI called PACX-MPI was used to make the applications run on such a cluster. Three applications were used for demonstration purposes. These applications had to be adapted for Metacomputing, to make them more latency tolerant.
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Gabriel, E., Resch, M., Christ, P., Geiger, A., Lang, U. (1999). High performance metacomputing in a transatlantic wide area application testbed. In: Cooperman, G., Jessen, E., Michler, G. (eds) Workshop on wide area networks and high performance computing. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 249. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0110083
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