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Using idle workstations in a shared computing environment
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
How to write parallel programs: a guide to the perplexed
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Parallel computing using idle workstations
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Adaptive parallelism with Piranha
Adaptive parallelism with Piranha
ATLAS: an infrastructure for global computing
EW 7 Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications
ParaWeb: towards world-wide supercomputing
EW 7 Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications
Adaptive Parallelism and Piranha
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IEEE Micro
Java-Centric Distributed Computing
IEEE Micro
Multiprocessing in a network of workstations
Multiprocessing in a network of workstations
Multiprocessing in a network of workstations
Multiprocessing in a network of workstations
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For years, scientists have dreamed of software programs that, given a very large task, could borrow any kind and number of unused machines available and speed up the job by distributing it around. The need to support some form of adaptive parallelism (AP) is the main property of these programs. As a program may temporarily access machines when their owners do not use them, it is also necessary to return these machines when their owners begin to work again. And as the number of machines allocated to a program expand and contract during its execution, adaptive parallelism allows the program to adjust to this dynamically changing set of machines. For example, a program can start on ten machines, then temporarily use twenty, and finish on five. Numerous projects have attempted to develop such programs. Initial attempts have been undertaken on Local Area Networks (LAN). Most recently, due mainly to the Java language and platform which solve problems such as security, heterogeneity, and portability, several attempts have targeted the Internet. This paper gives a brief overview of some AP systems. Then presents a prototype of an AP system, called ObjectSpace, based on Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI).