netCFD: a Ninf CFD component for Global Computing, and Its Java applet GUI

摘要

Ninf is middleware for building a global computing sys-tem in wide area network environments. We designed and implemented a Nijf computational component, netCFD for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). The Nijf Remote Procedure Call (RPC) provides an interface to a parallel CFD program running on any high performance platform-s. Teh netCFD turns high performance platforms such ad supercomputers and clusters into valuable components for use in global computing. Our experiment shows that the overhead of a remote netCFD computation for a typical ap-plication was about 10