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In addition to these two analyst roles, it is recommended that:
There is one analyst able to help application developers to develop and test
their applications.
Finally, here is an important remark concerning the human factor:
The grid software execution should be as transparent as possible when
performed on ordinary desktop computers; users tend to interrupt every
running program that they do not recognize as “useful” or that they believe be
a source of overhead; two generally good options are
screen-savers and
system services.
2.3 Setting up grid environments
In this section we present the basic steps for setting up a grid environment and
discuss some of the issues that commonly arise during these ...