Providing Infrastructure and Interface to High Performance Applications in a Distributed Setting
Dorian C. Arnold, Wonsuck Lee, Jack J. Dongarra, Mary F. Wheeler · 2000
The NetSolve project was established to aid scientists who prefer not to be concerned with the usual tedium associated with nding and maintaining software libraries which they use to create programs, toolkits and problem solving environments particular to their scientic domain. This article introduces the reader to the NetSolve system and discusses how it can be leveraged to build robust infrastructure for simulation frameworks, toolkits and other programs. The IPARS simulator is used as a concrete example of this approach. We further show how the ubiquity of the web and web browsers can be exploited to make simulators generally available without the need for downloading software. 1 INTRODUCTION Two things remain consistent in the realm of computer science: a need for more computational power than we have at any given point, and a desire for the simplest, yet most complete interface to our resources. Recently, much attention has been given to the area of Grid Computing (Foster and ...