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On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Amit Kumar Saha wrote:
> This probably is the same as saying that : In Distributed computing,
> the member nodes are *not* dedicated machines solely for executing the
> specific HPC task, where as in a Cluster we have a dedicated set of
> nodes, specifically working on a particular task.
Those are common models, yes. But probably not the only ones (notice
how I used "usually" liberally in my definitions :-) ).
Given the differences between Aurelien's answers and mine, I think the
community really only has general ideas about what exactly those terms
mean.
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Jeff Squyres
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