• DocumentCode
    2724559
  • Title

    Towards "Chemical" Desktop Grids

  • Author

    Banâtre, Jean-Pierre ; Le Scouarnec, Nicolas ; Priol, Thierry ; Radenac, Yann

  • Author_Institution
    INRIA/IRISA, Rennes
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2007
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    142
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces the application of an unconventional approach to Grid programming. The proposed programming model is based on the chemical metaphor for expressing coordination of large grain computations. A chemical program can be seen as a set of chemical reactions, representing computations, that transform a set of floating molecules, representing data, within a chemical solution until an inert solution is reached. This model is intrinsically parallel and possesses nice autonomic properties, which are expected for programming Grids. We illustrate this novel programming model with a simple ray-tracing application and describe an implementation in the context of Desktop Grids.
  • Keywords
    grid computing; chemical desktop grids; chemical metaphor; grid programming; parallel model; programming model; ray tracing application; Application software; Chaos; Chemicals; Computer languages; Context modeling; Grid computing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Quality of service; Ray tracing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    e-Science and Grid Computing, IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangalore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3064-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2007.77
  • Filename
    4426881