metacomputer
/ˌmɛtəkəmˈpjuːtə/
metacomputer noun: a grid or cluster of computers that work together on a problem as a single system.
Noun
metacomputer (plural metacomputers)
- A grid or cluster of computers that work together on a problem as a single system.
- The Polder metacomputer initiative is an ambitious project that aims to provide an experimental framework for metacomputer design tradeoffs and gradually build a metacomputer environment that organizes heterogeneous distributed resources into one single computer environment with a unified access.1997, Marian Bubak, Jack Dongarra, Jerzy Wasniewski, editors, Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 4th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting Cracow, Poland...
- A metacomputer comprises many computers and terabytes of memory in a loose confederation, tied together by a network.2003, Peter Kropf, Gilbert Babin, John Plaice, Herwig Unger, editors, Distributed Communities on the Web: Third International Workshop, DCW 2000, Quebec City, Canada, June 19-21, 2000, Proceedings...
Forms of metacomputer
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Origin of metacomputer
From meta- + computer.
Questions about metacomputer
- What does metacomputer mean?
- Metacomputer means a grid or cluster of computers that work together on a problem as a single system.
- What part of speech is metacomputer?
- Metacomputer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce metacomputer?
- Metacomputer is pronounced /ˌmɛtəkəmˈpjuːtə/.
- What is the plural of metacomputer?
- The plural of metacomputer is metacomputers.
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