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). This 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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 7-14 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| State | Published - 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Apr 2 1994 → Apr 5 1994 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing |
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| City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Period | 4/2/94 → 4/5/94 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering