Connection Mechanisms of CCA Components for Parallel Applications

With the increasing availability of high-performance massively parallel computer systems, sophisticated scientific simulation has grown rapidly. Besides, the fast growth of high bandwidth wide area networks has allowed the use of PC clusters and/or multiprocessors machines. In order to handle the complexity of such applications, software component technology appears very appealing. However, most current software component models do not provide any support to transparently and efficiently embed parallel code into components. This paper deals with communication between CCA (Common Component Architecture) components and parallel programs to support parallel components. Preliminary performance results are reasonable and just a little overhead is introduced in a pure parallel application.