EECS Publication
Hardware Software Server in NetSolve
Sudesh Agrawal
NetSolve is a project that makes use of distributed computational resources connected by computer networks to efficiently solve complex scientific problems. It is a remote procedure call (RPC) based client/agent/server system that allows users to discover, access, and utilize remote software modules and the hardware needed to run these modules. NetSolve facilitates heterogeneous computing, or the ability to combine different machine architectures and/or operating systems to solve a problem. Over the period of time NetSolve has gained great popularity among various universities, research groups and individuals. It has always been the policy of NetSolve project team to make NetSolve as easy as possible to be used even by a naive user. This pilot project is a step forward towards accomplishing this goal. NetSolve has been very successful in providing the user with an easy to use interface to access the software, however it is still an arduous task for a user to integrate his/her software into the NetSolve. This project involved categorizing servers in NetSolve into two domains viz. Software Servers and Hardware Servers, this categorization serves many purposes as discussed in this report, however the main advantage is easy integration of software into the NetSolve system, which is discussed in detail in the report.
Published 2002-04-01 05:00:00 as ut-cs-02-480 (ID:226)