Showing papers in "Future Generation Computer Systems in 1999"

TL;DR: The current implementation of the NWS for Unix and TCP/IP sockets is described and examples of its performance monitoring and forecasting capabilities are provided.

TL;DR: A system which enables application programmers to write parallel programs in Java and allows Java-capable browsers to execute parallel tasks is presented, which comprises a virtual machine model which isolates the program from the execution environment, and a runtime system realizing this virtual machine on the Web.

TL;DR: An empirical method applied with interesting results in modelling and simulating some complex macroscopic phenomena seems to satisfy the applicability conditions of such an empirical method.

TL;DR: Preliminary performance result on measuring software and network overhead is shown, and that promises the future reality of world-wide network computing is shown.

TL;DR: A survey of computational steering environments for the on-line steering of ongoing scientific and engineering simulations is presented and these environments can be used to create steerable applications for model exploration, algorithm experimentation, or performance optimization.

TL;DR: The resource management portions of the Legion metacomputing system are described, including the basic model and its implementation, which are flexible both in their support for system-level resource management but also in their adaptability for user-level scheduling policies.

TL;DR: This paper shows how Java’s object-oriented features are used to build a flexible software framework that makes it easy for programmers to write different volunteer computing applications, while allowing researchers to study and develop the underlying mechanisms behind them.

TL;DR: The progress that has been achieved to date in the development of the Globus toolkit, a set of core services for constructing grid tools and applications, is described, and the GUSTO testbed Organization is discussed, to enable large-scale evaluation of Globus technologies.

TL;DR: The Uniform Interface to Computing Resources (UNICORE) project addresses issues using the mechanisms of the World Wide Web to address the future of centralised Supercomputing facilities and large scale data resources and the development of interfaces for accessing their resources in a uniform and user-friendly manner.

TL;DR: HARNESS seeks to remove some of the limitations imposed by the PVM design by taking a totally different approach to creating and modifying a DVM.

TL;DR: A survey of the features of several software packages for the simulation of CA is given and a domain decomposition approach and possible optimizations are described.

TL;DR: This paper studies both hand-designed random number generators as well as ones produced by artificial evolution, and demonstrates that cellular automata can be used to rapidly produce high-quality random number sequences.

TL;DR: The CA and LB approach are combined in the same model, in order to describe a system where point-particles are transported in a fluid flow, which is used to simulate the snow transport, erosion and deposition by the wind.

TL;DR: A prototype of Javelin, an infrastructure for global computing based on Internet software that is interoperable, increasingly secure, and ubiquitous: Java-enabled Web technology, is presented.

TL;DR: Examining the history of telemedicine reveals a number of lessons, including that store-and-forward applications transmitted through the Internet appear elegantly basic and the same societal challenges to implementation remain, regardless of technology.

TL;DR: The software architecture and experiences building DISCWorld using Java and CORBA components are discussed, and the associated research issues for metacomputing that the authors are addressing are discussed.

TL;DR: An approach for elastic modelling of human tissue based on the use of embedded boundary condition techniques that involves complete 3D modelling of the solid highly detailed structure of the object, starting from the information present in the 3D diagnostic images.

TL;DR: The goals, design and an initial implementation of SNIPE are detailed, and its usefulness in supporting a middleware project is demonstrated and initial communications performance is presented.

TL;DR: A useful and flexible compromise between the need for high compression and the requirement for preservation of selected regions of interest is provided through two intelligent, yet simple, ways of achieving the so-called selective compression.

TL;DR: An existing system that delivers customized remote-sensing data products to web-connected clients, and what more is required to support supervised, on-demand processing of the data.

TL;DR: The authors compare the parallel algorithm performance for these three interfaces on an HP/Convex SPP/1600 and show that parallel realization of the mapping algorithm enables the visualization of data sets consisting of more than 10 4 multi-dimensional data points.

TL;DR: This work is developing a modeling methodology that will give programmable matter a much broader scope of application, and makes extensive use of synthetic dynamics inspired by physics, but harnesses these dynamics to data-processing tasks of a more general nature as are encountered in a variety of mundane applications.

TL;DR: This article has developed the steered molecular dynamics (SMD) system to interactively place and observe the effects of restraints in a running dynamics simulation, and an immersive virtual 3D environment through which the SMD system can be operated.

TL;DR: The GRED editor hides the cumbersome details of the underlying low-level message-passing system by providing visual abstractions but allows the programer to define local computations of the individual processes in C independently from the visually supported process management and inter-process communication activities.

TL;DR: From the confidence developed in these models, it is possible to consider cellular automata as an exploratory method for the discovery and understanding of new, unexpected phenomena.

TL;DR: The design of a molecular dynamics trajectory database is presented as an example of the organization of large-scale dynamic distributed repositories for scientific data.

TL;DR: A telemedical EEG analysis environment based on virtual reality technologies, where the same EEG signal/recording could be viewed either as a waveform or as animated topographic maps on a 3D head model.

TL;DR: It is shown how the tracking information can be used to enhance standard rendering and enable new visualizations on continuum datasets and review some of the previous work on feature tracking.

TL;DR: SPINEware is a facility that supports the development of working environments on top of existing computer networks, providing uniform and network-transparent access to the resources and applications available from the computer network.

TL;DR: How practical cellular automata algorithms for lattice gas, gas diffusion simulation, and traffic flow modeling can be designed using the CARPET programming language is described.