Meijuan Shan

Bio: Meijuan Shan is an academic researcher from University of York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Real time Java & Java applet. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 118 citations.

ParaWeb: towards world-wide supercomputing

Abstract: In this paper, we describe the design of a system, called ParaWeb, for utilizing Internet or intra-net computing resources in a seamless fashion. The goal is to allow users to execute serial programs on faster compute servers or parallel programs on a variety of possibly heterogeneous hosts. ParaWeb provides extensions to the Java programming environment (through a parallel class library) and the Java runtime system that allow programmers to develop new Java applications with parallelism in mind, or to execute existing Java applications written using Java's multithreading facilities in parallel. Some experimental results from our prototype implementation are used to demonstrate the potential of this approach.

Grid resource management: state of the art and future trends

Abstract: The emergence and widespread adoption of Grid computing has been fueled by continued growth in both our understanding of application requirements and the sophistication of the technologies used to meet these requirements. We provide an introduction to Grid applications and technologies and discuss the important role that resource management will play in future developments.

Global network computers

Abstract: This invention generally relates to one or more computer networks having computers like personal computers or network servers with microprocessors linked by broadband transmission means and having hardware, software, firmware, and other means such that at least one parallel processing operation occurs that involve at least two computers in the network. More particularly, this invention relates to one or more large networks composed of smaller networks and large numbers of computers connected, like the Internet, wherein more than one separate parallel processing operation involving more than one different set of computers occurs simultaneously and wherein ongoing processing linkages can be established between virtually any microprocessors of separate computers connected to the network. Still more particularly, this invention relates to business arrangements enabling the shared used of network microprocessors for parallel and other processing, wherein personal computer owners provide microprocessor processing power to a network, preferably for parallel processing, in exchange for network linkage to other personal and other computers supplied by network providers, including linkage to other microprocessors for parallel or other processing; the basis of the exchange between owners and providers being whatever terms to which the parties agree, subject to governing laws, regulations, or rules, including payment from either party to the other based on periodic measurement of net use or provision of processing power.

Javelin: Internet-based parallel computing using Java

Abstract: The JAVM (Java Astra Virtual Machine) project is about harnessing the immense computational resource available in the Internet for parallel processing. In this paper, the suitability of Java for Internet-based parallel computing is explored. Next, existing implementations of systems that make use of Java for network parallel computing are presented and categorized. A critique of these implementations follows. Basing on the critique, the requirements and goals of an effective parallel computing system in the Internet environment are singled out. These serve as the blueprint for the development of the JAVM system. Its infrastructure and features, namely ease of use, heterogeneity, portability, security, fault tolerance, load balancing, scalability and accountability, are discussed. Lastly, experimental results based on the running of several parallel applications in the JAVM environment are presented. Basing on the results, the kind of parallel applications that would be well suited for running in JAVM are identified.