High Performance Computing, High Speed Networks, and Configurable Computing Environments
William E. Johnston, Van L. Jacobson, Stewart C. Loken, D Robertson, Brian L. Tierney · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 1992
The next several years will see the maturing of a collection of technologies that will enable fully and transparently distributed computing environments.Networks will be used to configure independent computing, storage, and IJ 0 elements into • 'virtual systems" that are optimal for solving a particular problem.This environment will make the most powerful computing systems those that are logically assembled from network based components, and will also make those systems available to a widespread audience.' ...