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Generic Divide and Conquer Internet-Based ComputingThe rapid growth of internet-based applications and the proliferation of networking technologies have been transforming traditional commercial application areas as well as computer and computational sciences and engineering. This growth stimulates the exploration of new, internet-oriented software technologies that can open new research and application opportunities not only for the commercial world, but also for the scientific and high -performance computing applications community. The general goal of this research project is to contribute to better understanding of the transition to internet-based high -performance computing and to develop solutions for some of the difficulties of this transition. More specifically, our goal is to design an architecture for generic divide and conquer internet-based computing, to develop a portable implementation of this architecture, to create an example library of high-performance divide-and-conquer computing agents that run on top of this architecture, and to evaluate the performance of these agents. We have been designing an architecture that incorporates a master task-pool server and utilizes satellite computational servers that operate on the Internet in a dynamically changing large configuration of lower-end nodes provided by volunteer contributors. Our designed architecture is intended to be complementary to and accessible from computational grids such as Globus, Legion, and Condor. Grids provide remote access to existing high-end computing resources; in contrast, our goal is to utilize idle processor time of lower-end internet nodes. Our project is focused on a generic divide-and-conquer paradigm and its applications that operate on a loose and ever changing pool of lower-end internet nodes.
Document ID
20020018917
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Radenski, Atanas
(Winston-Salem State Univ. Winston-Salem, NC United States)
Follen, Gregory J.
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 2001
Publication Information
Publication: HBCUs/OMUs Research Conference Agenda and Abstracts
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Report/Patent Number
R36
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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