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Intensional High Performance Computing

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In this paper, we describe how a metacomputing environment called Web Operating System (WOS™) together with a new programming paradigm called ParCeL-2 may be used to exploit available computing resources on a parallel/distributed environment. The main feature of the WOS™ is to manage contexts of execution (hardware, software, time, etc). The WOS™ fulfills users’ requests while considering all possible execution contexts in order to provide the application with the best resources available. In the model presented, we assume that parallel/distributed HPC applications are written using ParCeL-2. The well defined computing model as well as the hierarchical syntactic structure of ParCeL-2 allow for an automatic adaptation, at execution time, of the size of the different parallel processes, depending on the context of execution. We have called this approach, derived from intensional logic: intensional High Performance Computing (iHPC).

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  1. GRIP Research Group, Département d’informatique, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Pierre Kuonen, Nabil Abdennadher & Paul-Jean Cagnard

  2. Paradis Laboratory, Département d’informatique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4

    Gilbert Babin

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Laval University, 3908 Adrien-Pouliot, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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Kuonen, P., Babin, G., Abdennadher, N., Cagnard, PJ. (2000). Intensional High Performance Computing. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_19

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