Abstract

High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also of the protocols and algorithms used by applications. Selection and configuration in turn require access to accurate, up-to-date information on the structure and state of available resources. Unfortunately no standard mechanism exists for organizing or accessing such information. Consequently different tools and applications adopt ad hoc mechanisms, or they compromise their portability and performance by using default configurations. We propose a Metacomputing Directory Service that provides efficient and scalable access to diverse, dynamic, and distributed information about resource structure and state. We define an extensible data model to represent required information and present a scalable, high-performance, distributed …

Date

August 5, 1997

Authors

Steven Fitzgerald, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Gregor Von Laszewski, Warren Smith, Steven Tuecke

Conference

Proceedings. The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (Cat. No. 97TB100183)

Pages

365-375

Publisher

IEEE