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A Problem Solving Environment Based on Commodity Software

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High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 2000)

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Following the common use of of commodity hardware to build clusters, we argue that commodity software should be harnessed in a similar way to support Scientific and Engineering work. Problem Solving Environments (PSE) provide the arena where commodity software technology can modernise the development and execution environment. We describe a PSE prototype based on the standard software infrastructure of Java Beans and CORBA that illustrates this idea and provides advanced PSE functionality at minimum effort for medium sized heterogeneus platforms.

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  1. Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    David Lancaster & J. S. Reeve

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Academic Computer Center CYFRONET, University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Marian Bubak

  2. Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Hamideh Afsarmanesh  & Bob Hertzberger  & 

  3. California Institute of Technology, Caltech 158-79, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Roy Williams

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Lancaster, D., Reeve, J.S. (2000). A Problem Solving Environment Based on Commodity Software. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_1

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