ASSEMBLING DYNAMIC COMPONENTS FOR METACOMPUTING USING CORBA

摘要

Modern technology provides the infrastructure required to develop distributed applications able to use the power of multiple supercomputing resources and to exploit their diversity. The performance potential offered by distributed supercomputing is enormous, but it is hard to realize due to the complexity of programming in such environments.In this paper we present an approach designed to overcome this challenge, based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a successful industry standard. This approach consists in the development of a dynamic graph of distributed objects. Each of these objects represents a small encapsulated application and can be used as a building block in the construction of powerful distributed meta-applications.