FIRST: a framework for interoperable resources, services, and tools

摘要

This paper proposes an open object-oriented architecture called IFIRST (Framework for Interoperable resources, Services and Tools). This distributed software tool development framework addresses the key objectives of tool interoperability, portability and extensibility. A conforming tool can thus be used on a variety of platforms, presenting a consistent high-level view of its interactions with parallel (or distributed) programs and machines.