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A Problem Solving Environment For Network Computing, Salim Hariri, Haluk Topcuoglu, Wojtek Furmanski, Dongmin Kim, Yoonhee Kim

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

The current advances in high-speed networks and WWW technologies have made network computing a cost-effective high performance computing environment. New software development models and problem solving environments must be developed to utilize the network computing environment efficiently. In this paper we present Virtual Distributed Computing Environment (VDCE), which provides a problem solving environment for high-performance distributed computing over wide-area networks. VDCE enables scientists to develop distributed applications without knowing the detailed architecture of the underlying resources. VDCE provides well-defined library functions that relieve end users from tedious task implementations and it supports software reusability. The VDCE software architecture consists of …