NPAC Technical Report SCCS-611
Developing Interactive PVM-based Parallel Programs on Distributed Computing Systems within AVS Framework.
Gang Cheng, Geoffrey Fox, Kim Mills, Marek Podgorny
Submitted January 1 1994
Abstract
We discuss techniques in developing interactive Parallel Virtual
Machine(PVM) concurrent programs on distributed systems under AVS
framework. Using a stock option price modeling application as a
case study, we demonstrate a simple, effective and modular approach
to coupling network-based concurrent modules into an interactive
remote visualization environment. A prototype simulation on-demand
system is developed, in which parallel option pricing models locally
implemented on two distributed systems, an Ethernet-connected IBM SP1 and
a FDDI-based GIGswitch-connected DEC Alpha farm, are coupled
with an interactive graphical user interface over a ATM-based
wide area network. This integrated networking/visualization framework
allows one to use a high level system software approach to combine AVS
visualization modules with remote concurrent PVM tasks in fine-grain
parallelism.