A Framework for Migration of Networked Intercommunication Processes

Abstract

The network age-superfast local networks and the all-encompassing Internet-promises great advancements in hardware resource management. Much of the existing computational power sits idle for long periods of time, while a few machines are overloaded. However, emerging technologies offer the ability to reassign jobs to idle hardware. Many types of programs, from parallel computations to distributed applications and mobile agents, would benefit greatly from the availability of the vast resources of idle computing time often available over networks for these, the potential gains in efficiency for these types of programs are significant. MINIPROCs (Migration of Networked Intercommunicating PROCesses) is one of several research efforts currently underway aimed at creating a useable infrastructure for distributing computation jobs over a wide-area network of workstations. Its goal is to enable parallel and distributed algorithms to be run concurrently and transparently on such a network.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA451445

Entities

People

  • Daniel Azuma
  • Eugene Chun
  • James Lin
  • Matthew Richardson

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • Computations
  • Contracts
  • Emerging Technology
  • Information Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Migration
  • Networks
  • Organizational Structure
  • Parallel Computing
  • Resource Management
  • Scientific Research
  • Standards
  • Wide Area Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.