From: Jack Dongarra
The NetSolve Project
http://www.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/
The first public release of NetSolve is now available. NetSolve is a
network enabled solver that allows users to access computational
resources, such as hardware and software, distributed across the network.
The development of NetSolve was motivated by the need for an easy-to-use,
efficient mechanism for accessing computational resources remotely.
Ease of use is obtained as a result of different interfaces, such as
Fortran, C, and Matlab; good performance is ensured by a load-balancing
policy that enables NetSolve to allocate computational resources as
efficiently as possible. NetSolve offers the ability to look for
computational resources on a network, choose the best one available,
solve a problem (with retry for fault-tolerance), and return the answer
to the user.
The software and additional information is available from our home page:
http://www.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/
This page provides information about the software release, plus papers and
manuals on NetSolve. If you have any questions, please mail us at
netsolve@cs.utk.edu.
Brief Description of the System
NetSolve has three components: the client, which can be either a
user program or a user interacting with one of the NetSolve interfaces;
the NetSolve agent; and the pool of NetSolve resources. The entry
point into the NetSolve system is the client sending a problem request
to the agent. The agent analyzes this request and chooses a computational
resource. The problem and its input data are then sent to the chosen
NetSolve resource. The problem is solved by the appropriate software
package, and the result is sent back to the client. The system can be
set up on an intranet or over the internet. We have set up an agent and
a number of computational servers that can be used here in Tennessee.
Contacts and Support
NetSolve is located at
http://www.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/.
This location
contains the source code distributions. Questions and comments can be
directed via e-mail to
netsolve@cs.utk.edu.
Henri Casanova and Jack Dongarra
Subject: The NetSolve Project
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