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Foil 34 Possible Services in a Java Computing 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 Grande Resource Discovery, Allocation and Scheduling
  • Recent JINI Sun technology looks attractive
2 We are defining methods and properties of computers and programs viewed as distributed objects
  • Thus we are inevitability defining a CORBA facility for computing
3 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
4 Accounting -- integrate with Web commerce technology?
5 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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