Collaborative Web computing environment: an infrastructure for scientific computation

Author

Lee, Chungnan ; Chiang, Chuanwen ; Horng, Minfong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

2000

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

35

Abstract

A collaborative Web computing environment (CWCE) supports massively distributed computations by providing an access-control mechanism to guarantee fair use of resources and an adaptive load-distribution mechanism to improve computing performance. Our proposed object-allocation mechanism and load-distribution policy can enhance the performance and efficiency of CWCE while avoiding the deep-seated deadlock and starvation problems. Performance evaluations show that the load-distribution policy performs reasonably well in both computation efficiency and job service quality

Keywords

distributed programming; groupware; information resources; resource allocation; access-control mechanism; adaptive load-distribution mechanism; collaborative Web computing environment; computation efficiency; fair resource use; job service quality; massively distributed computations; object-allocation mechanism; performance evaluation; scientific computation; Access control; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Internet; Java; Resource management; Virtual machining; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4236.832943

Filename

832943