mmGrid: distributed resource management infrastructure for multimedia applications

Author

Basu, Sujoy ; Adhikari, Sameer ; Kumar, Raj ; Yan, Yong ; Hochmuth, Roland ; Blaho, Bruce E.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2003

Abstract

We are developing mmGrid (Multimedia Grid) as an extensible middleware architecture supporting multimedia applications in a grid computing environment. Our vision is to provide support for interactive applications from the following domains: graphics, visualization, streaming media and tele-immersion. The initial deployment will be within an enterprise as a mechanism for provisioning computing resources. However the scheduling system of mmGrid will be flexible, and will allow interactive and batch jobs to use the grid-computing paradigm. This paper presents our argument for using remote display technology in this environment. We also report on the use cases we support at this point, the system architecture for mmGrid and our research directions.

Keywords

data visualisation; multimedia systems; rendering (computer graphics); resource allocation; workstation clusters; Multimedia Grid; distributed resource management infrastructure; graphics; grid computing environment; grid-computing paradigm; mmGrid; multimedia systems; remote display technology; streaming media; system architecture; visualization; Computer architecture; Displays; Graphics; Grid computing; Middleware; Multimedia computing; Processor scheduling; Resource management; Streaming media; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. International

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1926-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213192

Filename

1213192