[Swift-commit] r2420 - text/hpdc09submission

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Author: hategan
Date: 2009-01-09 15:02:25 -0600 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 2420

Modified:
   text/hpdc09submission/paper.latex
Log:
made parts of the abstract more clear

Modified: text/hpdc09submission/paper.latex
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--- text/hpdc09submission/paper.latex	2009-01-09 15:55:29 UTC (rev 2419)
+++ text/hpdc09submission/paper.latex	2009-01-09 21:02:25 UTC (rev 2420)
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
 \begin{abstract}
 
 Scientists, engineers and business analysts often pursue their work by
-applying application programs to massive collections of file-based data.
+applying domain-specific programs to massive collections of file-based data.
 Distributed and parallel computing resources provide a powerful way to
 get more of this type of work done faster, but using such resources
-greatly increases the complexity of the computing task. 
+imposes additional complexities.
 
-Swift addresses this problem with a scripting language for composing
+Swift addresses these complexities with a scripting language for composing
 ordinary application programs (serial or parallel) into more powerful
 distributed, parallelized applications. Applications expressed in Swift
 are location-independent and automatically parallelized. 
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@
 unreliable and dynamic aspects of wide-area distributed resources.
 
 The language provides a high level representation of collections of data
-and a specification of how those collections are to be mapped to an
+and a specification of how those collections are to be mapped to that
 abstract representation and processed by component programs. Underlying
 this is an implementation that executes component applications on grids
 and other parallel platforms, providing automated site selection, data
-management and reliability. 
+management, and reliability. 
 
 We present the language, details of the implementation, application
-examples, measurements and ongoing research.
+examples, measurements, and ongoing research.
 
 \end{abstract}