Title :
PODC: Paradigm-oriented distributed computing
Author :
Kuang, Hairong ; Bic, Lubomir E. ; Dillencourt, Michael B. ; Chang, Adam C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigm-oriented distributed computing is that the user only needs to specify application-specific sequential code, while the underlying infrastructure takes care of the parallelization and distribution. The main features of the proposed approach, called PODC, are the following: (1) It is intended for loosely-coupled network environments, not specialized multiprocessors; (2) it is based on an infrastructure of mobile agents; (3) it supports programming in C, rather than a functional or special-purpose language, and (4) it provides a Web-based interactive graphics interface through which programs are constructed, invoked, and monitored. The three paradigms presently supported in PODC are the bag-of-tasks, branch-and-bound search, and genetic programming. We demonstrate their use, implementation, and performance within the mobile agent-based PODC environment
Keywords :
distributed processing; PODC; distributed computing; loosely-coupled network environments; mobile agents; paradigm-oriented distributed computing; Computer science; Distributed computing; Genetic programming; Graphics; Load management; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Personal communication networks; Skeleton; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0468-X
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1999.818801