A DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Current tools available for high performance computing require that all the computing nodes used in a parallel execution be known in advance: the execution environment must know where the different “chunks” of programs will be executed, and each computer involved in the execution must be properly configured. In this paper, we describe how the Web Operating System (WOS TM ) environment may be used to dynamically locate available computers to perform such computations and how these computers are dynamically configured.

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