NetSolve Information


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From: Jack Dongarra Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:09:22 -0500
Subject: The NetSolve Project

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
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