Constructing Scientific Meta-Computations
Patrick T. Homer
and
Richard D. Schlichting
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
{patrick, rick}@cs.arizona.edu
Abstract
The increasing complexity of High Performance Computing (HPC)
applications, especially scientific simulations, has led to the
development of the meta-computation model of scientific applications.
In this model, an application is constructed from a collection of independent
software components potentially written in different programming languages
and targeted for different machine architectures. A software interconnection
system is then used to connect these heterogeneous components spanning the
Internet into a single logical program, and to provide configuration and
control capabilities over the resulting computation. This paper describes
the meta-computation model, the current state of an interconnection system
called Schooner that provides the software infrastructure needed to realize
this model, and the use of the model in an on-going NASA jet engine
simulation and monitoring project.
Proceedings HPC Asia '95,
Taipei Taiwan, (September 1995), to appear.
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