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Using Monitoring Techniques to Support the Cooperation of Software Components

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2001)

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Many applications in computing could be implemented by re-using existing programs, if only it were possible to easily make them interact with each other. MPI or PVM do not support these applications, as inserting a direct communication makes the components depend on each other. Even middleware for distributed computing still requires that the components already implement the necessary interfaces and that these are sufficient for the required interactions. The paper shows how on-line monitoring techniques can be used to improve this situation. An extended version of the monitoring system OCM allows both to incorporate the necessary interfaces and to define interactions between components at run-time, without having to modify their source code.

This work was partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Special Research Grant SFB 342, Subproject A1, and Research Grant WI-1346/1-1.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation (LRR-TUM), Technische Universität München, D-80290, München

    Roland Wismüller

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  1. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 84, Greece

    Yiannis Cotronis

  2. Innovative Computing Lab., Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 1122 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37996-3450, USA

    Jack Dongarra

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Wismüller, R. (2001). Using Monitoring Techniques to Support the Cooperation of Software Components. In: Cotronis, Y., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_27

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