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Interacting Data Services For Distributed Earthquake Modeling, Marlon Pierce, Choonhan Youn, Geoffrey C. Fox
Interacting Data Services For Distributed Earthquake Modeling, Marlon Pierce, Choonhan Youn, Geoffrey C. Fox
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship
We present XML schemas and our design for related data services for describing faults and surface displacements, which we use within earthquake modeling codes. These data services are implemented using a Web services approach and are incorporated in a portal architecture with other, general purpose services for application and file management. We make use of many Web services standards, including WSDL and SOAP, with specific implementations in Java. We illustrate how these data models and services may be used to build distributed, interacting applications through data flow.
Mpj: Mpi-Like Message Passing For Java, Bryan Carpenter, Vladimir Getov, Glenn Judd, Anthony Skjellum, Geoffrey C. Fox
Mpj: Mpi-Like Message Passing For Java, Bryan Carpenter, Vladimir Getov, Glenn Judd, Anthony Skjellum, Geoffrey C. Fox
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in using Java for parallel programming. Efforts have been hindered by lack of standard Java parallel programming APIs. To alleviate this problem, various groups started projects to develop Java message passing systems modeled on the successful Message Passing Interface (MPI). Official MPI bindings are currently defined only for C, Fortran, and C++, so early MPI-like environments for Java have been divergent. This paper related an effort undertaken by a working group of the Java Grande Forum, seeking a consensus on an MPI-like API, to enhance the viability of parallel programming using Java.
Java’S Insecure Parallelism, Per Brinch Hansen
Java’S Insecure Parallelism, Per Brinch Hansen
College of Engineering and Computer Science - Former Departments, Centers, Institutes and Projects
The author examines the synchronization features of Java and finds that they are insecure variants of his earliest ideas in parallel programming published in 1972-73. The claim that Java supports monitors is shown to be false. The author concludes that Java ignores the last twenty-five years of research in parallel programming languages.
Mpijava: An Object-Oriented Java Interface To Mpi, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung Hoon Ko
Mpijava: An Object-Oriented Java Interface To Mpi, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung Hoon Ko
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
A basic prerequisite for parallel programming is a good communication API. The recent interest in using Java for scientific and engineering application has led to several international efforts to produce a message passing interface to support parallel computation. In this paper we describe and then discuss the syntax, functionality and performance of one such interface, mpiJava, an object-oriented Java interface to MPI. We first discuss the design of the mpiJava API and the issues associated with its development. We then move on to briefly outline the steps necessary to 'port' mpiJava onto a range of operating systems, including Windows NT, …
Towards A Java Environment For Spmd Programming, Bryan Carpenter, Guansong Zhang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Li
Towards A Java Environment For Spmd Programming, Bryan Carpenter, Guansong Zhang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Li
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
As a relatively straightforward object-oriented language, Java is a plausible basis for a scientific parallel programming language. We outline a conservative set of language extensions to support this kind of programming. The programming style advocated is Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD), with parallel arrays added as language primitives. Communications involving distributed arrays are handled through a standard library of collective operations. Because the underlying programming model is SPMD programming, direct calls to other communication packages are also possible from this language.
A High Level Spmd Programming Model: Hpspmd And Its Java Language Binding, Guansong Zhang, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xinying Li
A High Level Spmd Programming Model: Hpspmd And Its Java Language Binding, Guansong Zhang, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xinying Li
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
This report introduces a new language, HPJava, for parallel programming on message passing systems. The language provides a high level SPMD programming model. Through examples and performance results, the features of the new programming style, and its implementation, are illustrated.
Java/Corba Based Real-Time Infrastructure To Integrate Event-Driven Simulations, Collaboration And Distributed Object/Componentware Computing, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Hasan T. Ozdemir
Java/Corba Based Real-Time Infrastructure To Integrate Event-Driven Simulations, Collaboration And Distributed Object/Componentware Computing, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Hasan T. Ozdemir
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
We are discussing the four major standard candidates for distributed object/componentware computing: Java, CORBA, COM and WOM within our proposed coordination framework we call Pragmatic Object Web (POW). We describe our integration approach based on multi-protocol middleware server JWORB (Java Web Object Request Broker) that currently integrates HTTP and IIOP and which we now further develop to also support COM and WOM core functionalities. We are also experimenting with visual data ow authoring front-ends using NPAC WebFlow system on top of JWORB based software bus. Finally, we illustrate our technologies in one major application domain- DoD Modeling and Simulation- where …
Darp: Java-Based Data Analysis And Rapid Prototyping Environment For Distributed High Performance Computations, Erol Akarsu, Geoffrey C. Fox, Tomasz Haupt
Darp: Java-Based Data Analysis And Rapid Prototyping Environment For Distributed High Performance Computations, Erol Akarsu, Geoffrey C. Fox, Tomasz Haupt
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
The integration of a compiled and interpreted HPF gives us an opportunity to design a powerful application development environment targeted for high performance parallel and distributed systems. This Web based system follows a three-tier model. The Java front-end holds proxy objects which can be manipulated with an interpreted Web client (a Java applet) interacting dynamically with compiled code through a tier-2 server. Although targeted for HPF back-end, the system’s architecture is independent of the back-end language, and can be extended to support other high performance languages.
Secure Delegation For Distributed Object Environments, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Doug Lea
Secure Delegation For Distributed Object Environments, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Doug Lea
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship
SDM is a Secure Delegation Model for Java-based distributed object environments. SDM extends current Java security features to support secure remote method invocations that may involve chains of delegated calls across distributed objects. The framework supports a control API for application developers to specify mechanisms and security policies surrounding simple or cascaded delegation. Delegation may also be disabled and optionally revoked. These policies may be controlled explicitly in application code, or implicitly via administrative tools.
Hpjava: Data Parallel Extensions To Java, Bryan Carpenter, Guansong Zhang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xinying Li
Hpjava: Data Parallel Extensions To Java, Bryan Carpenter, Guansong Zhang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xinying Li
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
We outline an extension of Java for programming with distributed arrays. The basic programming style is Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD), but parallel arrays are provided as new language primitives. Further extensions include three distributed control constructs, the most important being a data-parallel loop construct. Communications involving distributed arrays are handled through a standard library of collective operations. Because the underlying programming model is SPMD programming, direct calls to MPI or other communication packages are also allowed in an HPJava program.
Webflow - A Visual Programming Paradigm For Web/Java Based Coarse Grain Distributed Computing, Dimple Bhatia, Vanco Burzevski, Maja Camuseva, Geoffrey C. Fox
Webflow - A Visual Programming Paradigm For Web/Java Based Coarse Grain Distributed Computing, Dimple Bhatia, Vanco Burzevski, Maja Camuseva, Geoffrey C. Fox
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
We present here the recent work at NPAC aimed at developing WebFlow---a general purpose Web based visual interactive programming environment for coarse grain distributed computing. We follow the 3-tier architecture with the central control and integration WebVM layer in tier-2, interacting with the visual graph editor applets in tier-1 (front-end) and the legacy systems in tier-3. WebVM is given by a mesh of Java Web servers such as Jeeves from JavaSoft or Jigsaw from MIT/W3C. All system control structures are implemented as URL-addressable servlets which enable Web browser-based authoring, monitoring, publication, documentation and software distribution tools for distributed computing. We …
Java For Parallel Computing And As A General Language For Scientific And Engineering Simulation And Modeling, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
Java For Parallel Computing And As A General Language For Scientific And Engineering Simulation And Modeling, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
We discuss the role of Java and Web technologies for general simulation. We classify the classes of concurrency typical in problems and analyze separately the role of Java in user interfaces, coarse grain software integration, and detailed computational kernels. We conclude that Java could become a major language for computational science, as it potentially offers good performance, excellent user interfaces, and the advantages of object-oriented structure.
Experiments With "Hp Java", Bryan Carpenter, Yuh-Jye Chang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Donald Leskiw
Experiments With "Hp Java", Bryan Carpenter, Yuh-Jye Chang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Donald Leskiw
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
We consider the possible role of Java as a language for High Performance Computing. After discussing reasons why Java may be a natural candidate for a portable parallel programming language, we describe several case studies. These cover Java socket programming, message-passing through a Java interface to MPI, and class libraries for data-parallel programming in Java.
A Prototype Fortran-To-Java Converter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Li, Zheng Qiang, Wu Zhigang
A Prototype Fortran-To-Java Converter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Li, Zheng Qiang, Wu Zhigang
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
This is a report on a prototype of a FORTRAN 77 to Java converter, f2j. Translation issues are identified, approaches are presented, a URL is provided for interested readers to download the package, and some unsolved problems are brought up. F2j allows value added to some of the investment onFORTRAN code, in particular, those well established FORTRAN libraries for scientific and engineering computation.
Mpj: A Proposed Java Message Passing Api And Environment For High Performance Computing, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter
Mpj: A Proposed Java Message Passing Api And Environment For High Performance Computing, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center
In this paper we sketch out a proposed reference implementation for message passing in Java (MPJ), an MPI-like API from the Message-Passing Working Group of the Java Grande Forum [1,2]. The proposal relies heavily on RMI and Jini for finding computational resources, creating slave processes, and handling failures. User-level communication is implemented efficiently directly on top of Java sockets.