Desktop Delivery: Access to Large Datasets
PHILIP D. HEERMANN and CONSTANTINE PAVLAKOS, Sandia National Laboratories
25.1 Introduction
Since the advent of modern digital computing, the rapid evolution of technology has been a major aspect of the high-performance computing field. Computer users, however, have changed less radically, and the desire to compute from their offices is constant. From punch cards and printouts through dial-in terminals and network-connected personal computers, users have enjoyed an increasing ability to interact with supercomputers from their offices.
The major issue in desktop interaction with supercomputers is the size of the data. For many years, the primary problem was the size of the results. Input decks ...
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