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Distributed Computations Driven by Resource Consumption

Distributed Computations Driven by Resource Consumption
Distributed Computations Driven by Resource Consumption
Millions of computers are now connected together by the Internet. At a fast pace, applications are taking advantage of these new capabilities, and are becoming parallel and distributed, e.g. applets on the WWW or agent technology. As we live in a world with finite resources, an important challenge is to be able to control computations in such an environment. For instance, a user might like to suspend a computation because another one seems to be more promising. In this paper, we present a paradigm that allows the programmer to monitor and control computations, whether parallel or distributed, by mastering their resource consumption. We describe an implementation on top of the thread library PPCR and the message-passing library Nexus.
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68--77
Moreau, Luc
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Queinnec, Christian
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Moreau, Luc
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Queinnec, Christian
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Moreau, Luc and Queinnec, Christian (1998) Distributed Computations Driven by Resource Consumption. IEEE International Conference on Computer Languages (ICCL'98). 68--77 .

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Millions of computers are now connected together by the Internet. At a fast pace, applications are taking advantage of these new capabilities, and are becoming parallel and distributed, e.g. applets on the WWW or agent technology. As we live in a world with finite resources, an important challenge is to be able to control computations in such an environment. For instance, a user might like to suspend a computation because another one seems to be more promising. In this paper, we present a paradigm that allows the programmer to monitor and control computations, whether parallel or distributed, by mastering their resource consumption. We describe an implementation on top of the thread library PPCR and the message-passing library Nexus.

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Published date: 1998
Additional Information: Address: Chicago, Illinois
Venue - Dates: IEEE International Conference on Computer Languages (ICCL'98), 1998-01-01
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 252757
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/252757
ISBN: 0-8186-8454-2
PURE UUID: a5c3d0d5-8632-482d-b63b-a047bb687872
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X

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Date deposited: 20 Mar 2000
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 05:22

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Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD
Author: Christian Queinnec

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