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A Middleware Environment for Parallel Java on the Hitachi SR2201
Student
Elson Mourao, University of Coimbra
Supervisor
Hon Yau, EPCC
This document is a proposal for a summer student project concerned
with the Hitachi-EPCC collaborative Java project for the Hitachi
SR2201 distributed memory multiprocessor high-performance computer.
The aim is to produce a middleware which will allow the SR2201 to
operate as a compute-server in a commercial enterprise environment, to
which clients may submit their Java codes for improved execution. The
need for such an environment comes from the strong adoption of
object-orientated technology (including Java-based technologies), and
the increasing prevalence of commodity PC desktop clients. In such an
environment, there is assumed to be an established set of Java codes
which can be executed on desktops, but which would benefit from access
to a remote Java engine. The use of Java is particularly notable for
this application as it has much of the machinery to allow distributed
object computing, as well as to send objects to remote recipients on
the network. The successful completion of this project will provide
the student with a broad range of understanding to the current
state-of-the-art in Java-based distributed computing, and to the
project partners with a means of integrating the parallel Java for
SR2201 work into the commercial environment.
Click here for further details about this
project.
The final report for this project is available here.
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