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Foil 6 Commodity Web-Server based Metacomputer Capabilities at 3 levels

From Computational Grids and Commodity Technologies for CFD AirFrame Simulation Panel ARPA Sys.Env. Meeting Washington -- 10-11 November 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 1:User View: Interoperable Web Interface accessing services through Java Compute Services Framework
2 2:Network of Java Servers provide distributed services with databases, compute engines, collaboratories, object brokers, instruments
  • All control at this level
  • Some coarse grain computing
3 Back end "Number Crunchers" linked either by communication at level 2 (slowish but easy) or at level 3 (high performance but more work)
4 Compute processes linked either to servers or together by MPI if parallel
5 Java Servers
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