NPAC Technical Report SCCS-834

Web Based Metacomputing

Tomasz Haupt, Erol Akarsu, Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski

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Abstract

Programming tools that are simultaneously sustainable, highly functional, robust and easy to use have been hard to come by in the HPCC arena. This is partially due to the difficulty in developing sophisticated customized systems for what is a relatively small part of the worldwide computing enterprise. Thus we have developed a new strategy - termed HPcc High Performance Commodity Computing[1] - which builds HPCC programming tools on top of the remarkable new software infrastructure being built for the commercial web and distributed object areas. We add high performance to commodity systems using multi tier architecture with GLOBUS metacomputing toolkit as the backend of a middle tier of commodity web and object servers. We have demonstrated the fully functional prototype of WebFlow during Alliance'98 meeting.


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