Towards Web/Java-based high performance distributed computing-an evolving virtual machine

Author

Fox, Geoffrey ; Furmanski, Wojtek

Author_Institution

Northeast Parallel Archit. Center, Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

308

Lastpage

317

Abstract

Discusses the emergent World Wide Web-based distributed environments for high-performance computing and communications (HPCC) on the National Information Infrastructure (NII) with the focus on Java as an enabling technology. We start with a review of the past, present and near-term future of the "Java phenomenon", exposed in the background of some related previous approaches towards a distributed interpretative virtual machine architecture. Next, we discuss the anticipated role of Java in building distributed Web-based computing environments. We outline an evolutionary path from the current Web technology "soup" towards "all-Java" systems and we illustrate this process in terms of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) Web technology prototypes (WebVM, WebFlow, Bridge-based Collaboratory) and selected applications (CareWeb, 3D Visible Human).

Keywords

Internet; authoring languages; distributed processing; object-oriented languages; virtual machines; 3D Visible Human; Bridge-based Collaboratory; CareWeb; Java-based high-performance distributed computing; National Information Infrastructure; Northeast Parallel Architectures Center; Web technology prototypes; WebFlow; WebVM; World Wide Web-based distributed environments; distributed interpretative virtual machine architecture; evolutionary path; Buildings; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Humans; Java; Parallel architectures; Prototypes; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY, USA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7582-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1996.546201

Filename

546201