NetSolve: A Network-Enabled Solver; Examples and Users

The NetSolve project, underway at the University of Tennessee and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, allows users to access computational resources distributed across the network. These resources are embodied in computational servers and allow the user to easily perform scienti c computing tasks without having any computing facility installed on his her computer. The user access to the servers is facilitated by a variety of interfaces: Application Programming Interfaces APIs, Textual Interactive Interfaces and Graphical User Interfaces GUIs. There are many research issues involved in the NetSolve system, including fault-tolerance, load balancing, user-interface design, computational servers, and network-based computing. As the project matures, several promising extensions and applications of NetSolve will emerge. In this article, we provide an overview of the project and examine some of the extensions being developed: An interface to the Condor system, an interface to the ScaLAPACK...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: HCW
• Authors: Henri Casanova, Jack Dongarra
• Keywords: Computational Servers, Distributed And Parallel Computing, HCW 1998, NetSolve, NetSolve Project