JOPI: a Java object-passing interface

Authors:
Nader Mohamed;Jameela Al-Jaroodi;Hong Jiang;David Swanson
Affiliations:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE;University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE;University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE;University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Venue:
JGI '02 Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Recently there has been an increasing interest in developing parallel programming capabilities in Java to harness the vast resources available in clusters, grids and heterogeneous networked systems. In this paper, we introduce a Java object-passing interface (JOPI) library. JOPI provides Java programmers with the necessary functionality to write object-passing parallel programs in distributed heterogeneous systems. JOPI provides an MPI-like interface that can be used to exchange objects among processes. In addition to the well-known benefits of the object-oriented development model, using objects to exchange information in JOPI is advantageous because it facilitates passing complex structures and enables the programmer to isolate the problem space from the parallelization problem. The run-time environment for JOPI is portable, efficient and provides the necessary functionality to deploy and execute parallel Java programs. Experiments were conducted on a cluster system and a collection of heterogeneous platforms to measure JOPI's performance and compare it with MPI. The results show good performance gains using JOPI.