Java on networks of workstations (JavaNOW): A parallel computing framework inspired by Linda and the Message Passing Interface (IPI)

摘要

Networks of workstations are dominant force in the distributed computing arena, due primarily to the excellent price/performance ratio of such systems when compared to traditionally massively parallel architectures. It is therefore critical to develop programming languages and environments that can help harness the raw computational power available on these systems. In this article, we present javaNOW (Java on Networks of Workstations), a Java-based framework for parallel programming on networks of workstations. It creates a virtual parallel machine similar to the MPI (Message Passing Interface) model, and provides distributed associative shared memory similar to the Linda memory model but with a richer set of primitive operations.