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| | Towards Wide-Area Network Piranha: Implementing Java-Linda |
 | | Piranha has been tested on non-Solaris Sparcstations and IBM RS6000's, and a limited amount of heterogeneity is supported in that Piranha applications can be run on these two architectures at the same time. |
 | | WAN Piranha will have to schedule effectively in an environment where 1) the availability of the computing nodes for the entire run of the computation is not certain, 2) the range of computing devices available and their capabilities will vary greatly, and 3) interprocess communication time will vary greatly. |
 | | Unfortunately, the Piranha application programmer, in writing his piranha, feeder, retreat, and other functions, would have to take into account the different architectures his program might run on and create a separate version for each one; also, there would need to be a mechanism to distribute the different executable versions to their corresponding architectures. |
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