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4.5 Conclusion
Nowadays, performing research on cutting-edge technologies quite often implies
making use of high-performance computing infrastructures. Such infrastructures
have always been implemented by expensive and inflexible computing systems
that only a small parcel of the research institutions could afford to have.
In this chapter, we presented a grid-based implementation for a
high-performance computing infrastructure suitable for most of the researching
demands. This infrastructure should be able to deliver high-performance
computing at a much lower cost, which makes grid computing so appealing to
research institutions.
We recognize that a number of compute intensive applications might not ...