An Infrastructure of Network Services for Seamless Integration in Advanced Collaborative Computing Environments
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas Uram, Susanne Lefvert, Terry L. Disz, Michael E. Papka, Rick L. Stevens
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 27 - 30, 2005
Abstract
Advanced collaborative computing environments are one of the most important tools for integrating high performance computers and computations and interacting with colleagues distributed around the world. However, heterogeneous characteristics such as network transfer rates, computational abilities, and hierarchical systems make the seamless integration of distributed resources a challenge. In this paper, we argue that advanced collaborative computing environments need an infrastructure of network services to support distributed and quality guaranteed multimedia applications. This paper first proposes the design of network services for high performance collaborative computing. Then, collaborative environment network service infrastructure (CENSI) is presented to embed network services into various systems intelligently and elastically. Thirdly, we also discuss their management modules including a three-party resource, requests and network services matching model, performance monitoring and evaluation of group communications, and distribution topology analysis. At the last, we describe various network services and some related open issues.