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A Framework for Object-Oriented Metacomputing

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Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE 1999)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1732))

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Visper is a network-based, visual software-engineering environment for parallel processing. It is completely implemented in Java and supports the message-passing model. Java offers the basic platform independent services needed to integrate heterogeneous hardware into a seamless computational resource. Easy installation, participation and flexibility are seen as the key properties when using the system. Visper is designed to make use of Java features to implement important services like efficient creation of processes on remote hosts, inter-process communication, security, checkpointing and object migration. We believe the approach taken simplifies the development and testing of parallel programs by enabling a modular, object-oriented technique based on our extensions to the Java API, without modifying the language. Our experimental results show that the environment is suitable for course grained parallel applications.

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  1. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Nenad Stankovic & Kang Zhang

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  1. National Institut of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, 101-8430, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Matsuoka

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, CIC-8 MS B272, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA

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Stankovic, N., Zhang, K. (1999). A Framework for Object-Oriented Metacomputing. In: Matsuoka, S., Tholburn, M. (eds) Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1732. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704054_8

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