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Javelin: Parallel computing on the internet by Michael O. Neary; Bernd O. Christiansen; Peter Cappello; Klaus E. Schauser is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Javelin: Parallel computing on the internet about?

Java offers the basic infrastructure needed to integrate computers connected to the Internet into a seamless distributed computational resource: an infrastructure for running coarse-grained parallel applications on numerous, anonymous machines. First, we sketch such a resource's essential technical properties. Then, we present a prototype of Javelin, an infrastructure for global computing. The system is based on Internet software that is interoperable, increasingly secure, and ubiquitous: Java-enabled Web technology. Ease of participation is seen as a key property for such a resource to realize the vision of a multiprocessing environment comprising thousands of computers. Javelin's architecture and implementation require participants to have access to only a Java-enabled Web browser. Experimental results are given in the form of a Mersenne Prime application and a ray-tracing application that run on a heterogeneous network of several parallel machines, workstations, and PCs. Two key areas of current research, fault-tolerance and scalability, are subsequently explored briefly.

Who reads Javelin: Parallel computing on the internet?

It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.

Author
Michael O. Neary; Bernd O. Christiansen; Peter Cappello; Klaus E. Schauser
Publisher
Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0167-739X)
Published
1999
Language
EN
Field
Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

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