NETSOLVE - A NETWORK-ENABLED SERVER FOR SOLVING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCEPROBLEMS

This paper presents a new system, called NetSolve, that allows users t o access computational resources, such as hardware and software, distr ibuted across the network. The development of NetSolve was motivated b y the need for an easy-to-use, efficient mechanism for using computati onal resources remotely. Ease of use is obtained as a result of differ ent interfaces, some of which require no programming effort from the u ser. Good performance is ensured by a load-balancing policy that enabl es NetSolve to use the computational resources available as efficientl y as possible. NetSolve offers the ability to look for computational r esources on a network, choose the best one available, solve a problem (with retry for fault tolerance), and return the answer to the user.