The Schooner Project
Interconnecting Heterogeneous HPC Scientific Applications
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
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The goal of the Schooner Project is to investigate a new model
for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications in which the application
is constructed as a
heterogeneous distributed program or, equivalently,
a meta-computation.
Computational heterogeneity in this model occurs in
several dimensions, including programming languages,
programming models, and machine architectures.
With this approach,
an application is constructed from a distributed collection of
component codes executing on a
variety of heterogeneous machines spanning both short- and long-haul networks.
A software interconnection system connects components into
a single program in a manner that is transparent to the user, and provides
configuration and execution control over the resulting computation.
In short, the vision is of a future where codes can be selected for
an application based solely on their value to the computation and not
their computational requirements, a philosophy that goes beyond
simple accommodation of heterogeneity to exploitation.
- System overview
- Application collaborations
- Papers
- Software distribution
- Supercomputing '95 research exhibit
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Last updated on 9/16/97.
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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