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Foil 21 Possible Services in a Java Computing Framework - I

From Java Grande in a Nutshell EuroPar Java Grande Workshop -- September 2-3 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Grande Resource Discovery, Allocation and Scheduling
  • Recent JINI Sun technology looks attractive
We are defining methods and properties of computers and programs viewed as distributed objects
  • Thus we are inevitability defining a CORBA facility for computing
Compiling, Executing, Specification of features needed for execution optimization
  • This includes parameters needed by MPI/HPF decompositions such as number of processors
  • Resource Management and Scheduling jobs as in Codine or LSF or commercial NT environments
Accounting -- integrate with Web commerce technology?
Authentication, Security (especially hard in metacomputing as link several different management policies)
  • Public Key Infrastructure expected from Internet commerce very important



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