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Foil 24 Computing Services at 3 levels

From Introduction to Java to be used in (Scientific) Computing CEWES Java Tutorial -- Spring Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


1:User View: Interoperable Web Interface accessing services through Java Compute Services Framework 2:Network of Java Servers provide distributed services to 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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