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Establishing a reliable Jini infrastructure for parallel applications

Baker, M. and Smith, G. (2001) Establishing a reliable Jini infrastructure for parallel applications. Parallel Processing Letters, 11 (02n03). pp. 203-221. ISSN 0129-6264

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1142/S0129626401000531

Abstract/Summary

Java is becoming an increasingly popular language for developing distributed and parallel scientific and engineering applications. Jini is a Java-based infrastructure developed by Sun that can allegedly provide all the services necessary to support distributed applications. It is the aim of this paper to explore and investigate the services and properties that Jini actually provides and match these against the needs of high performance distributed and parallel applications written in Java. The motivation for this work is the need to develop a distributed infrastructure to support an MPI-like interface to Java known as MPJ. In the first part of the paper we discuss the needs of MPJ, the parallel environment that we wish to support. In particular we look at aspects such as reliability and ease of use. We then move on to sketch out the Jini architecture and review the components and services that Jini provides. In the third part of the paper we critically explore a Jini infrastructure that could be used to support MPJ. Here we are particularly concerned with Jini's ability to support reliably a cocoon of MPJ processes executing in a heterogeneous envirnoment. In the final part of the paper we summarise our findings and report on future work being undertaken on Jini and MPJ.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science
ID Code:30855
Publisher:World Scientific Press

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