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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications High Performance Computing Grid vs. Parallel vs. Distributed Post 302094470 by Perderabo on Friday 27th of October 2006 07:27:11 PM

10-27-2006

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Well, as I understand the terms:
parallel computing --- one box with mutiple cpu's attacking the same problem simultaneously.

cluster --- a collection of boxes in the same room pretending to be a single box to the outside world.

distributed computing --- a large collection of systems to handle a very large application. These are all administered by the same organization but seldom are all of the computers in the same room. No requirement to pretend to be a single box.

grid computing --- a very large collection of systems used to attack a very large computational problem. Unlimited numbers of systems can added or removed almost instantly. No requirement for central administation of the boxes on the grid. The systems on the grid may not be dedicated to it and may reside on another grid as well. Think of those screen savers that look for ET. That is probably the world's largest grid.

Anybody have better definitions?

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xslt-config

xslt-config(1)						      General Commands Manual						    xslt-config(1)

NAME

       xslt-config - script to get information about the installed version of libxslt

SYNOPSIS

       xslt-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--libs] [--cflags] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       xslt-config  is	a  tool  that  is used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use
       libxslt.

OPTIONS

       xslt-config accepts the following options:

       --version
	       Print the currently installed version of libxslt on the standard output.

       --libs  Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a libxslt program.

       --cflags
	       Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a libxslt program.

       --prefix=PREFIX
	       If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that libxslt was built with when computing the output for the  --cflags
	       and --libs options. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

       --exec-prefix=PREFIX
	       If  specified,  use  PREFIX instead of the executable prefix that libxslt was built with when computing the output for the --cflags
	       and --libs options. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

AUTHORS

       Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com)

NOTES

       Source for libxslt is available on http://opensolaris.org.  Documentation for libxslt is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT.

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