Paper Info
Title
DISCWorld: A Distributed High Performance Computing Environment
Abstract
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require dis- tributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time re- quirements. Distributed science and engineering applications require a high performance \middleware" which will both allow the embedding of legacy applications as well as enable new distributed programs, and which allows the best use of existing and specialised (parallel) computing resources. We are developing a distributed information systems control environment which will meet the needs of a middleware for scientic applications. We describe our DISCWorld system and some of its key attributes. A critical attribute is architecture scalability. We discuss DISCWorld in the context of some ex- isting middleware systems such as CORBA and other distributed computing research systems such as Legion and Globus. Our approach is to embed ap- plications in the middleware as services, which can be chained together. User interfaces are provided in the form of Java Applets downloadable across the World Wide Web. These form a gateway for user-requests to be transmit- ted into a semi-opaque \cloud" of high-performance resources for distributed execution.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/BFb0037187
HPCN Europe
Keywords
Field
DocType
high performance computing environment,middleware,user interface,distributed computing,parallel computer,world wide web,java applet,satisfiability
Middleware,Middleware (distributed applications),Computer science,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,Distributed design patterns,User interface,Legacy system,Operating system,Scalability,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1401
0302-9743
3-540-64443-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.92
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K. A. Hawick129366.26
H. A. James28931.57
Craig J. Patten3172.93
Francis Vaughan4101.92