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Networks of workstations are now common places. They are more and more often used by the parallel computing community to achieve large computations. These platforms have a lower cost than dedicated machines but still provide very good results. At the software level, a middleware is required to make them usable. In this paper we present Jem, the middleware that we have developed at the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique - LaBRI -. We put the stress on two features - dynamic naming service and smart proxies - that make it easy for Jem to support dynamic and mobile resources.
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Chaumette, S., Ugarte, A. (2001). A Distributed Platform with Features for Supporting Dynamic and Mobile Resources. In: Hertzberger, B., Hoekstra, A., Williams, R. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48228-8_69
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