TY - GEN AU - Chorafas,Dimitris N. TI - Network computers versus high performance computers SN - 0304700282 (HB) U1 - 004.65,CHO PY - 1997/// CY - London, Herndon, VA PB - Cassell KW - Client/server computing KW - Computer networks KW - Network computers N1 - The challenges of industrial computing (Page-1), Network computers and new workplace metaphor (Page-25), Network-Oriented solutions, intranets and mobile computing (Page-51),From client-Servers to high performance computers and beyond (Page-75), Desk area networks at MIT video conferencing (Page-97), Shared-Nothing, Shared-Everything, Multimedia solutions and transaction handling (Page-121), The first desk area network to come on stream (Page-145), Ups and downs of the Japanese real world computing project (Page-167), Scientific research and high performance computing (Page-191), High Performance computing in a banking environment (Page-213) ER -