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Hydra - Decentralized and Adaptative Approach to Distributed Computing

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This paper presents Hydra— a system designed for distributed computing on a set of heterogeneous uncommitted machines. It consists of autonomous nodes placed on participating host computers. The nodes attempt to make maximal use of temporarily available resources with a monitoring mechanism. Hydra nodes need no administration. Prototype was implemented in Java. Results of a sample simulation show scalability of the system.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, AGH, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Marian Bubak

  2. Academic Computer Centre, CYFRONET, Nawojki 11, 30-950, Kraków, Poland

    Marian Bubak & Paweł Płaszczak

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Tor Sørevik , Fredrik Manne  & Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin ,  & 

  2. Parallab, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Randi Moe

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Bubak, M., Płaszczak, P. (2001). Hydra - Decentralized and Adaptative Approach to Distributed Computing. In: Sørevik, T., Manne, F., Gebremedhin, A.H., Moe, R. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. New Paradigms for HPC in Industry and Academia. PARA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1947. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70734-4_29

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