Title :
The virtual computing environment
Author :
Rousselle, Philip ; Tymann, Paul ; Hariri, Salim ; Fox, Geoffrey
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
A network of supercomputers and high-performance workstations appears to be the only reasonable way to provide adequate computing resources for the Grand Challenge problems of the next century. Such a collection of computers and supporting software environments is called a virtual computing environment (VCE). The paper describes the motivation and goals of the VCE project, followed by a description of the system. The paper concentrates on the runtime aspects of the VCE, and concludes with a discussion of a small prototype system that has been built using the Isis distributed toolkit
Keywords :
computer networks; parallel programming; virtual reality; Grand Challenge problems; Isis distributed toolkit; VCE; computing resources; high-performance workstations; runtime aspects; small prototype system; supercomputers; supporting software environments; virtual computing environment; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Operating systems; Parallel architectures; Programming profession; Software tools; Supercomputers; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6395-2
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1994.340265
