Published 1998
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Book Section - Chapter
Paraflow: A dataflow distributed data-computing system
- Creators
- Williams, Roy
- Sears, Bruce
Abstract
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallelism: a dataflow paradigm provides functional parallelism, connecting services by channels; each service may be a SPMD parallel program; and each node of the SPMD service may be multithreaded. Paraflow is easily integrated with web-computing, using MIME types, HTTP forms, a Java GUI for setting up the network of services, and a simple API to allow web servers to be utilized in the computation. Emphasis is on providing a bridge from straightforward, public, unauthenticated browsing of data to collaborative, high-performance data-computing.
Additional Information
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 107106
- DOI
- 10.1007/bfb0037183
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20201215-151611216
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- Series Name
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 1401