Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1999-12-25DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991225)11:15%3C949::AID-CPE462%3E3.0.CO;2-Y
R. McCormack, J. Koontz, J. Devaney
{"title":"Seamless computing with WebSubmit","authors":"R. McCormack, J. Koontz, J. Devaney","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991225)11:15%3C949::AID-CPE462%3E3.0.CO;2-Y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991225)11:15%3C949::AID-CPE462%3E3.0.CO;2-Y","url":null,"abstract":"WebSubmit is a Web-browser based interface to heterogeneous collections of remote high-performance computing resources. It makes these resources easier to use by replacing a constantly changing range of unfamiliar , command-driven queuing systems and application environments with a single, seamless user interface. WebSubmit lets users run in their regular accounts on the remote system. Strong authentication using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol allows registered users connect to the Web-Submit authority. When validated by the authority they gain access to a group of application modules. Each application module is presented as an HTML form; this form is lled out and submitted to the server, which then processes the request and executes the desired tasks on the speciied remote system using the Secure Shell protocol. The system is exible and extensible, and its modularity promotes ease of use, maintainability, and interface development.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124470138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1999-12-10DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C849::AID-CPE463%3E3.0.CO;2-G
J. M. Claver, V. Hernández
{"title":"Parallel adaptive wavefront algorithms solving Lyapunov equations for the Cholesky factor on message passing multiprocessors","authors":"J. M. Claver, V. Hernández","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C849::AID-CPE463%3E3.0.CO;2-G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C849::AID-CPE463%3E3.0.CO;2-G","url":null,"abstract":"The order of the matrices involved in several algebraic problems decreases during the solution process In these cases parallel algorithms which use adaptive solving blocks sizes o er better performance results than the ones obtained on parallel algorithms using traditional constant block sizes Recently new parallel wavefront algorithms solving the Lyapunov equations for the Cholesky factor using Hammarling s method on message passing multiprocessors systems have been designed In this paper new parallel adapative versions of these parallel algorithms are described and experimental results obtained on an SGI Power Challenge are presented","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121651461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1999-12-10DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C863::AID-CPE464%3E3.0.CO;2-T
P. Selwood, M. Berzins
{"title":"Parallel unstructured tetrahedral mesh adaptation: algorithms, implementation and scalability","authors":"P. Selwood, M. Berzins","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C863::AID-CPE464%3E3.0.CO;2-T","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991210)11:14%3C863::AID-CPE464%3E3.0.CO;2-T","url":null,"abstract":"The use of unstructured adaptive tetrahedral meshes in the solution of transient flows poses a challenge for parallel computing due to the irregular and frequently changing nature of the data and its distribution. A parallel mesh adaptation algorithm, PTETRAD, for unstructured tetrahedral meshes (based on the serial code TETRAD) is described and analysed. The portable implementation of the parallel code in C with MPI is described and discussed. The scalability of the code is considered, analysed and illustrated by numerical experiments using a shock wave diffraction problem.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"59 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124318638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1999-11-01DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199911)11:13%3C803::AID-CPE455%3E3.0.CO;2-3
M. Hobbs, A. Goscinski
{"title":"A concurrent process creation service to support SPMD based parallel processing on COWs","authors":"M. Hobbs, A. Goscinski","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199911)11:13%3C803::AID-CPE455%3E3.0.CO;2-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199911)11:13%3C803::AID-CPE455%3E3.0.CO;2-3","url":null,"abstract":"Current software environments used to support parallel processing on a cluster of workstations (COW) are not satisfactory, do not provide complete transparency and are not specifically designed for parallel processing. In particular, the establishment of a parallel processing environment and the initialisation of parallel processes suffer from poor performance. Each parallel process of an application is created sequentially and in many cases the logon operation must be completed before remote resources could be acquired. These operations are also performed manually. We present in this paper an original approach that addresses the problem of parallel process creation. The remote workstations are acquired completely transparently and dynamically, and parallel processes are created concurrently. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach we show a system based on RHODOS (a client/server and microkernel based distributed operating system), specifically designed to improve the performance of process instantiation and therefore able to improve the overall execution performance of parallel programs, in particular parallel process creation. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134313856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}