Archived: 11 Feb 2003
Published in Proc. of 1st IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2001), Brisbane, May 2001.
In this paper, we describe the results of an experiment to add support for multimethod communication to the Nexus- Java communications library using metalevel programming techniques. We describe the Nexus architecture and the Java implementation of this architecture. We summize the technique of metalevel programming, and apply the technique to develop a metalevel for adaptive multimethod communication called Gekko. In addition, we discuss the test environment we use for evaluation of Gekko, and discuss lessons we have learnt in its development.
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