Andrei Heilper

A special distributed system in a general programming environment

An approach aimed at running a special class of computationally intensive applications in an affordable heterogeneous computing environment built around existing off-the-shelf hardware is described. The software support combines a general-purpose parallel programming language with a remote procedure call facility. The increase in throughput is a result of the overlap in servers computations. The attractiveness of the system comes mainly from its low cost. A typical application involving the traveling salesman problem is described, and performance issues are discussed.<<ETX>>

The distributed and parallel NIC server

Abstract The NIC-Server is a high-performance, low-overhead experimental system which supports distributed and parallel programming in FORTRAN using asynchronous RPC. The minimal requirements from users are natural to FORTRAN programmers; ANSI C implementation on top of the lower layers of Sun-RPC, and the built-in scheduler, ensure good portability across systems.