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Super computing also known as high performance computing initially consisted of large
machines in one single room. ...
Australia has a number of high performance computing centres such as APAC*, AC3*
and VPAC*. There is also a number of high performance computing resources in
Australian Universities.
Cluster computing evolved approximately ten years ago out of the need for large amounts
of computational and storage resources. Researchers simply could not work with the
small resources being offered from super computing centres or the extreme costs
associated with their usage. ... One of the top super computers in the world illustrates how such computing is
proving popular and successful. ... There have been a number of definitions for the word grid. ... Grid computing
has evolved in parallel with network computing (distributed systems). ... An example of this is the Tera Grid initiative in the United States
funded by the National Science Foundation. Tera Grid consists of three sites, SDSC
(Sandiego Super Computing Centre), NCSA and Caltech pooling together computation
storage and information resources over a 40gb/sec network6. ...
The grid in principal is similar to a cluster, the difference however being the geographic
locality and numbers of nodes. There are a number of variations on the word grid, which
refer to its usage.
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