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Foil 13 Web-Server based Metacomputer Capabilities at 3 levels

From Commodity(Web) Technologies in the service of Computational Grids Argonne Workshop on Computational Grids -- 7-10 Sept 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1:User View: Interoperable Web Interface accessing services through Java Compute Services Framework
2:Network of Java Servers provide distributed services with databases, compute engines, collaboratories, object brokers, instruments
  • All control at this level
  • Some coarse grain computing
Back end "Number Crunchers" linked either by communication at level 2 (slowish but easy) or at level 3 (high performance but more work)
Compute processes linked either to servers or together by MPI if parallel
Java Servers

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