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Advances in heterogeneous network computing

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1998)

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Frameworks that facilitate network computing have proven viable for high performance applications as well as for traditional distributed computing. Performance and functionality that such methodologies can provide, as well as their limitations and potential, have become reasonably well understood. In this paper, we discuss some selected aspects of heterogeneous computing in the context of the PVM system, and describe evolutionary enhancements to the system. Our experiences with PVM and experiments with optimization, light-weight processes, and client-server computing, have suggested useful directions that the next generation of heterogeneous systems might follow. A prototype design of such a next-generation heterogeneous computing framework is presented in the second half of this paper.

Research supported by U. S. DoE, MICS grant DE-FG05-91ER25105, and NSF awards ASC-9527186, and CCR-9523544.

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Gray, P., Krantz, A., Olesen, S., Sunderam, V. (1998). Advances in heterogeneous network computing. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056562

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