This report was commissioned for EPSRC/DTI Core e-Science Programme by Professor A. G. Hey in June 2001. A working version of this document was released for comment with limited circulation to the UK Research Councils e-Science Programme Grid Technical Advisory Group in July 2001. The current document supersedes this earlier version.
The authors are based in the Department of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK and may
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We are grateful to Mark Baker (co-chair of the IEEE Task Force in Cluster Computing) for his contributions to Section 3. Thanks also to Vijay Dialani for his input, and to the UK’s Grid Technical Advisory Group members and others who provided comments on the first draft of this report, and to Luc Moreau, Mark Greenwood, Nick Gibbins and Rob Allan for commenting on the second draft. We are grateful to Epistemics Ltd for management of the contract.
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