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Mobile Agent Programming for Clusters with Parallel Skeletons

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High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002 (VECPAR 2002)

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Parallel programming effort can be reduced by using highlevel constructs such as algorithmic skeletons. Within the Magda toolset, supporting programming and execution of mobile agent based distributed applications, we provide a skeleton-based parallel programming environment, based on specialization of Algorithmic Skeleton Java interfaces and classes. Their implementation include mobile agent features for execution on heterogeneous systems, such as clusters of WSs and PCs, and support reliability and dynamic workload balancing. The user can thus develop a parallel, mobile agent based application by simply specialising a given set of classes and methods and using a set of added functionalities. This work has been supported by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MURST) (P.R.I.N. Project ISIDE - “Dependable reactive computing systems for industrial applications”) and by the CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy (Agenzia 2000 Project METODOLOGIE E STRUMENTI PER LABORATORI VIRTUALI DISTRIBUITI).

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Second University of Naples, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29, 81031, Aversa, CE, Italy

    Rocco Aversa, Beniamino Di Martino, Nicola Mazzocca & Salvatore Venticinque

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  1. Faculdade de Engenharia da, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    José M. L. M. Palma  & A. Augusto Sousa  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 37996-1301, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, Apartado 22012, 46020, Valencia, Spain

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Aversa, R., Di Martino, B., Mazzocca, N., Venticinque, S. (2003). Mobile Agent Programming for Clusters with Parallel Skeletons. In: Palma, J.M.L.M., Sousa, A.A., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002. VECPAR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36569-9_42

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