Exploiting multidomain non routable networks

Abstract

Exploiting computing resources available within “departmental” organizations to run large-scale applications can be considered a difficult task since such resources are usually represented by computing nodes that belong to non-routable, private networks and are connected to the Internet through publicly addressable IP front-end nodes. This paper presents a Java middleware that can support the execution of large-scale, object-based applications over heterogeneous multidomain, non-routable networks. Furthermore, the middleware can be exploited to relieve programmers of the classic burden tied to the deployment of PVM runtime libraries and program executables among computational resources belonging to distinct administrative domains.