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Merging Web-Based with Cluster-Based Computing

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Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE 1998)

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This paper presents a Java-based software infrastructure that allows the merging of Web-based metacomputing with cluster-based parallel computing. We briefly compare the two approaches and we describe the implementation of a software bridge that supports the execution of meta-applications: some processes of the application may run over the Internet as Java applets while other processes of the same application can execute on a dedicated cluster of machines running PVM or MPI. We present some performance results that show the effectiveness of our approach.

This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) under program PRAXIS XXI.

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  1. Universidade de Coimbra - POLO II, Coimbra, Portugal

    Luís Moura Silva, Paulo Martins & JoÃo Gabriel Silva

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  1. University of Nice - INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, F-06902, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Denis Caromel

  2. Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

    Rodney R. Oldehoeft

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, CIC-8, MS B272, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    Marydell Tholburn

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Silva, L.M., Martins, P., Gabriel Silva, J. (1998). Merging Web-Based with Cluster-Based Computing. In: Caromel, D., Oldehoeft, R.R., Tholburn, M. (eds) Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49372-7_11

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