The virtual computing environment

Author

Rousselle, Philip ; Tymann, Paul ; Hariri, Salim ; Fox, Geoffrey

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Aug 1994

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

14

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1994.340265

Filename

340265