The Distributed High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (DHPC-I) project is developing a middleware infrastructure for distributed high-performance computing applications.
The Distributed Information Systems Control World (DISCWorld) is a smart middleware system designed to integrate processing and storage resources across wide area heterogeneous networks, exploiting broadband communications where available.
Metacomputing has come to mean the ``integration of distributed computing resources so that a user connected to a single platform can enjoy the functionality and performance of the whole system with some degree of transparency''. The term implies more than distributed computing or clustered computing and often involves a ``meta-level'' of software above the individual operating systems of the component hosts that provides the glue to enable transparent access for users. The term metacomputing usually implies interactions across computing resources that would otherwise be uncoupled at the operating systems level, and often also implies interactions across wide areas. A number of metacomputing environments and software packages have been developed recently by other researchers, each addressing different aspects of the problem.
This project provides a framework for many of the threads of research
in high performance and distributed computing that we are carrying out
both in the DHPC Group and under the OLDA program of the ACSys CRC.
The sub-projects include:
For more information, contact
Ken Hawick.