An Enabling Framework for Master-Worker Applications on the Computational Grid

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Pierre Goux;Sanjeev Kulkarni;Michael Yoder;Jeff Linderoth

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HPDC '00 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe MW - a software framework that allows users to quickly and easily parallelize scientific computations using the master-worker paradigm on the computational grid. MW provides both a 驴top level驴 interface to application software and a 驴bottom level驴 interface to existing grid computing toolkits. Both interfaces are briefly described. We conclude with a case study, where the necessary Grid services are provided by the Condor high-throughput computing system, and the MW-enabled application code is used to solve a combinatorial optimization problem of unprecedented complexity.