Opportunities and Tools for Highly Interactive Distributed and Parallel Computing

Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Thomas Kindler, Karsten Schwan, Dilma Silva and Jeffrey Vetter

Abstract

Advances in networking, visualization and parallel computing signal the end of the days of batch-mode processing for computationally intensive applications. The ability to control and interact with these applications in real-time offers both opportunities and challenges. This paper examines two computationally intensive scientific applications and discusses the ways in which more interactivity in their computations presents opportunities for gain. It briefly examines the requirements for systems trying to exploit these opportunities and discusses Falcon, a system that attempts to fulfill these requirements.

Availability

This paper is appear in book form as the Proceedings of The Workshop On Debugging and Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems, Chatham, MA, October, 1994. The paper can be retrieved by clicking here, but be warned that it contains color images which will reproduce poorly if printed on monochrome printers. However if you're on a color screen it can be easily previewed by Ghostscript.

Bibtex Entry

@TECHREPORT{Eisenhauer94OAT,
   AUTHOR    = {Greg Eisenhauer and Weiming Gu and Thomas Kindler and
	    Karsten Schwan and Dilma Silva and Jeffrey Vetter},
   TITLE     = {Opportunities and Tools for Highly Interactive Distributed
	    and Parallel Computing},
   INSTITUTION= {Georgia Institute of Technology},
   YEAR	     = {1994},
   TYPE	     = {Technical Report},
   NUMBER    = {GIT-CC-94-58},
   ADDRESS   = {College of Computing, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280},
   MONTH     = {December},
   NOTE1     = {Also in Proceedings of The Workshop On Debugging and
	    Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems, Chatham, MA, October, 1994.}
}

The home page for the Falcon project, accessible here contains references to other papers on the system.

eisen.nospam@cc.gatech.edu
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280