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This paper presents a Java-based software infrastructure that allows the merging of Web-based metacomputing with cluster-based parallel computing. We briefly compare the two approaches and we describe the implementation of a software bridge that supports the execution of meta-applications: some processes of the application may run over the Internet as Java applets while other processes of the same application can execute on a dedicated cluster of machines running PVM or MPI. We present some performance results that show the effectiveness of our approach.
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This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) under program PRAXIS XXI.
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Silva, L.M., Martins, P., Gabriel Silva, J. (1998). Merging Web-Based with Cluster-Based Computing. In: Caromel, D., Oldehoeft, R.R., Tholburn, M. (eds) Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49372-7_11
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