JMAS: a java-based mobile actor system for distributed parallel computation

  • Authors:
  • Legand L. Burge;K. M. George

  • Affiliations:
  • Systems and Computer Science, Howard University, Washington, DC;Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • Venue:
  • COOTS'99 Proceedings of the 5th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies & Systems - Volume 5
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

JMAS is a prototype network computing infrastructure based on mobile actors [10] using Java technology. JMAS requires a programming style different from commonly used approaches to distributed computing. JMAS allows a programmer to create mobile actors, initialize their behaviors, and send them messages using constructs provided by the JMAS Mobile Actor API. Applications are decomposed by the programmer into small, self-contained sub-computations and distributed among a virtual network of Distributed Run-Time Managers (D-RTM); which execute and manage all mobile computations. This system is well suited for course grain computations for network computing clusters. Performance evaluation is done using two benchmarks: a Mersenne Prime Application, and the Traveling Salesman Problem.