NetCFD: a Ninf CFD component for global computing, and its Java applet GUI

Author

Sato, Mitsuhisa ; Kusano, Kazuhiro ; Nakada, Hidemoto ; Sekiguchi, Satoshi ; Matsuoka, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Real World Comput. Partnership, Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

14-17 May 2000

Firstpage

501

Abstract

Ninf is middleware for building a global computing system in wide area network environments. We designed and implemented a Ninf computational component, netCFD for CFD (computational fluid dynamics). The Ninf remote procedure call (RPC) provides an interface to a parallel CFD program running on any high performance platforms. The netCFD turns high performance platforms such as supercomputers and clusters into valuable components for use in global computing. Our experiment shows that the overhead of a remote netCFD computation for a typical application was about 10% compared with its conventional local execution. The netCFD applet GUI which is loaded in a Web browser allows a remote user to control and visualize the CFD computation results interactively.

Keywords

Java; client-server systems; computational fluid dynamics; graphical user interfaces; remote procedure calls; wide area networks; Java applet GUI; Ninf middleware; Web browser; clusters; computational fluid dynamics; global computing; high performance platforms; netCFD; parallel CFD program; remote procedure call; supercomputers; wide area network environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2000. Proceedings. The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0589-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPC.2000.846605

Filename

846605