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Jeff, > However, we have to keep in mind performance ramifications. It still takes > a long time to move gigabytes of data across a network. This brings up the > importance of moving the computation to the data, instead of moving the > data to the computation. For some data sets and many use cases remote > access to data works very well so things like brokering are tractable. > However, for *big* data sets (e.g., climate model output) we need to come > up with richer mechanisms (like the NCO on local data) to bring computation > to the data. See Daniel Wang's SWAMP (the Script Workflow Analysis for MultiProcessing), built on top of NCO: https://code.google.com/p/swamp/ --Russ
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