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- From: joeb@atmos.washington.edu (Joe Barsugli)
- Subject: Re: Research in applying distributed systems to meteorology problems
- In-Reply-To: wood@cs.vu.nl's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:25:10 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:42:55 GMT
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- In article <BxwnHz.K1s@cs.vu.nl> wood@cs.vu.nl (Mark D. Wood) writes:
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- I'm a researcher in distributed systems, looking for problems... (A
- large part of research :) )
-
- A considerable amount of research has been devoted to developing
- computer-based climate models, methods for weather prediction, etc.
- These tasks are typically computationally intensive. and the research
- questions here lie primarily in the fields of numerical analysis and
- algorithms.
-
- It would seem, however, that techniques from distributed systems could
- also be applied. Perhaps the tasks are all fairly simple and
- straightforward; it is "just" a question of remote sensing, gathering
- information from remote sensors, and then disseminating as necessary.
- However I'd expect that there are some thorny issues here, which could
- be best addressed by applying techniques from the distributed systems
- community.
-
-
- Could you fill me in on what "distributed systems" techniques are? I
- am unfamiliar with the precise definition of the term.
-
- Joe Barsugli (joeb@atmos.washington.edu)
- Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, AK-40
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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