References

¹ SMP: symmetric multiprocessing; NUMA: non-uniform memory access; ccNUMA: cache-coherent NUMA.

² An example of a Web interface is entering a genetic sequence to be matched against a database using the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) application*.

³ The 451 Group, "Grids 2004: From Rocket Science to Business Service*," page 17.

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