Wide-Area Parallel Programming using the Remote Method Invocation Model (1999)
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@MISC{Nieuwpoort99wide-areaparallel,
author = {Rob van Nieuwpoort and Jason Maassen and Henri E. Bal and Thilo Kielmann and Ronald Veldema},
title = {Wide-Area Parallel Programming using the Remote Method Invocation Model},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Java’s support for parallel and distributed processing makes the language attractive for metacomputing applications, such as parallel applications that run on geographically distributed (wide-area) systems. To obtain actual experience with a Java-centric approach to metacomputing, we have built and used a high-performance wide-area Java system, called Manta. Manta implements the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) model using different communication protocols (active messages and TCP/IP) for different networks. The paper shows how widearea parallel applications can be expressed and optimized using Java RMI. Also, it presents performance results of several applications on a wide-area system consisting of four Myrinetbased clusters connected by ATM WANs. We finally discuss alternative programming models, namely object replication, JavaSpaces, and MPI for Java.
