Remote execution of data-parallel programs

A framework is described that allows numerical computations to be performed in parallel on a collection of processors located anywhere on, a global network. The program to be executed is parallelized using data mapping mechanisms as defined e.g. in High Performance Fortran. Network: communication relies on the infrastructure provided by CORBA. The whole framework is implemented in Java. The implemented parallel execution scheme is as follows: Each of the cooperating processors hosts a server object that creates one or more stationary agents. Computation progress is supervised by a chosen server, the conductor, which is also a client. The conductor prompts the stationary agents to communicate and perform parallel computations in accordance with the program's control flow and data mapping.