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Foil 33 Proposed Java Computing Services Framework

From Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell Sun MicroSystems Java Day at MIT (Marriot Hotel Cambridge MA) -- Sept 25 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Enables development of Web Interfaces to run a given job on any computer with any data source compliant with this framework just as JDBC gives a universal interface to any relational database
  • i.e. enables seamless computing which is a part of metacomputing but not as ambitious
  • Metacomputing in addition allows linkage of multiple computers to run together on a single job
2 The Computing Services Framework will allow vendors to compete on either User Front End (GUI) or back end services with the JavaCS framework providing universal linkage
3 The framework is implemented at the backend as a set of drivers which map generic Java Interfaces to particular software (e.g. a compiler) on particular machines.
4 Requires agreement by "suitable interested parties" on
  • what are the services
  • what are the interfaces for a given service

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