Past projects
- Several research endeavors in distributed metacomputing and resource sharing, including Harness and H2O, frameworks for Fault Tolerant Collaborative Resource Sharing (H2O, RMIX, and Janus).
Joint with Oak Ridge National Labs, and the University of Tennessee. - H2O is a lightweight component-based, service-oriented framework for distributed metacomputing. [publications]
- RMIX is a pluggable RMI framework that allows dynamic selection from among multiple transport protocols via a unified API. [publications]
- REVENTS is an API and library for communication using asynchronous distributed events.
- Java Utilities is a set of general-purpose Java utility classes that we have developed over the years as needed for our specialized projects.
- Janus is an effort to study robustness issues in wireless networks and mobile systems, particularly in the context of group communications protocols. [publications]
- JNDI Service Providers is an implementation of two JNDI service providers. One for the Jini lookup service and one for HDNS.
- The Harness system is based on the concept of distributed virtual machines that are reconfigurable in terms of both resources and software infrastructures. [publications]
- General purpose collaboration (as opposed to domain-specific collaboratories) is the focus of the CCF project that enables workspace sharing and multimodal communication. [publications]
- IceT investigates issues in cooperative, unobtrusive metacomputing.
- Other efforts that are in steady state or still evoke interest include: PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine, the PIOUS parallel I/O system, and ACES, part of the PaCS effort.