Development and Implementation of a Distributed-Object Job-Execution Environment
Author(s) -
Rod Fatoohi,
Lance Smith
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
scientific programming
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.269
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1875-919X
pISSN - 1058-9244
DOI - 10.1155/2001/827470
Subject(s) - computer science , java , common object request broker architecture , unified modeling language , distributed computing , source lines of code , code (set theory) , distributed computing environment , object oriented programming , set (abstract data type) , operating system , software , programming language
This paper describes the development and implementation of a distributed job execution environment for highly iterative jobs. An iterative job is defined here as a binary code that is run multiple times with incremental changes in the input values for each run. An execution environment is a set of resources on a computing platform that can be made available to run the job and hold the output until it is collected. The goal is to design a complete, object-oriented execution system that runs a variety of jobs with minimal changes. Areas of code that are unique to a specific type of job are decoupled from the rest. The system allows for fine-grained job control, timely status notification and dynamic registration and deregistration of execution platforms depending on resources available. Several objected-oriented technologies are employed: Java, CORBA, UML, and software design patterns. The environment has been tested using a simulation code, INS2D
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