Wide-area parallel programming using the remote method invocation model

作     者：van Nieuwpoort, R Maassen, J Bal, HE Kielmann, T Veldema, R 

作者机构：Free Univ Amsterdam Dept Comp Sci NL-1081 HV Amsterdam Netherlands 

出 版 物：《CONCURRENCY-PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE》 (并行学和计算：实践与经验)

年 卷 期：2000年第12卷第8期

页      面：643-666页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Java RMI metacomputing parallel programming 

摘      要：Java s support for parallel and distributed processing makes the language attractive for metacomputing applications, such as parallel applications that run on geographically distributed (wide-area) systems. To obtain actual experience with a Java-centric approach to metacomputing, we have built and used a highperformance wide-area Java system, called Manta, Manta implements the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) model using different communication protocols (active messages and TCP/IP) for different networks. The paper shows how wide-area parallel applications can be expressed and optimized using Java RMI, Also, it presents performance results of several applications on a wide-area system consisting of four Myrinet-based clusters connected by ATM WANs, We finally discuss alternative programming models, namely object replication, JavaSpaces, and MPI for Java, Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.