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JMAS: a java-based mobile actor system for distributed parallel computation

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Legand L. Burge,

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COOTS'99: Proceedings of the 5th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies & Systems - Volume 5

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Abstract

JMAS is a prototype network computing infrastructure based on mobile actors [10] using Java technology. JMAS requires a programming style different from commonly used approaches to distributed computing. JMAS allows a programmer to create mobile actors, initialize their behaviors, and send them messages using constructs provided by the JMAS Mobile Actor API. Applications are decomposed by the programmer into small, self-contained sub-computations and distributed among a virtual network of Distributed Run-Time Managers (D-RTM); which execute and manage all mobile computations. This system is well suited for course grain computations for network computing clusters. Performance evaluation is done using two benchmarks: a Mersenne Prime Application, and the Traveling Salesman Problem.

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Haller POdersky M(2006)Event-Based programming without inversion of controlProceedings of the 7th joint conference on Modular Programming Languages10.1007/11860990_2(4-22)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11860990_2

Index Terms

JMAS: a java-based mobile actor system for distributed parallel computation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
  2. Concurrent computing methodologies
    1. Concurrent programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages

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Haller POdersky M(2006)Event-Based programming without inversion of controlProceedings of the 7th joint conference on Modular Programming Languages10.1007/11860990_2(4-22)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2006
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