Title :
The DEC: processing scientific data over the Internet
Author :
Chen, Chungmin ; Salem, Kenneth ; Livny, Miron
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We present the Distributed Batch Controller (DBC), a system built to support batch processing of large scientific datasets. The DBC implements a federation of autonomous workstation pools, which may be widely distributed. Individual batch jobs are executed using idle workstations in these pools. Input data are staged to the pool before processing begins. We describe the architecture and implementation of the DBC, and present the results of experiments in which it is used to perform image compression
Keywords :
batch processing (computers); data compression; image coding; scientific information systems; DEC; Distributed Batch Controller; Internet; autonomous workstation pools; batch processing; idle workstations; image compression; large scientific datasets; scientific data processing; Cache storage; Computer science; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Internet; Satellites; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7399-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1996.508019
