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Aisling Yue Irwing and Alen Macline, “Strategic Analysis of the Advanced Computing Infrastructure and Future Directions”, Journal of Computing and Natural Science, vol.1, no.3, pp. 077-084, July 2021. doi: 10.53759/181X/JCNS202101012.
