Software infrastructure for the I-WAY high-performance distributed computing experiment (1996)
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| Venue: | In Proc. 5th IEEE Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing |
| Citations: | 46 - 8 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Foster96softwareinfrastructure,
author = {Ian Foster and Jonathan Geisler and Bill Nickless and Warren Smith and Steven Tuecke},
title = {Software infrastructure for the I-WAY high-performance distributed computing experiment},
booktitle = {In Proc. 5th IEEE Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing},
year = {1996},
pages = {562--571},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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High-speed wide area networks are expected to enable innovative applications that integrate geographically distributed, high-performance computing, database, graphics, and networking resources. However, there is as yet little understanding of the higher-level services required to support these applications, or of the techniques required to implement these services in a scalable, secure manner. We report on a large-scale prototyping effort that has yielded some insights into these issues. Building on the hardware base provided by the I-WAY, a national-scale Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network, we developed an integrated management and application programming system, called I-Soft. This system was deployed at most of the 17 I-WAY sites and used by many of the 60 applications demonstrated on the I-WAY network. In this article, we describe the I-Soft design and report on lessons learned from application experiments. 1
