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A Distributed Platform with Features for Supporting Dynamic and Mobile Resources

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 2001)

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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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  1. LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

    Asier Ugarte

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics,and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098, SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

    Roy Williams

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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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