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We present HOCs — Higher-Order Components — that provide the Grid application programmer with reusable and composable patterns of parallelism. HOCs can be viewed formally as higher-order functions, i.e. a generic implementation of a HOC on a remote machine can be customized with application-specific code parameters which are supplied by the user and shipped via the network. We take the well-known “Farm of Workers” pattern as our motivating example, present an experimental implementation of the Farm-HOC as a Grid Service using the Globus Toolkit, and report first measurements for a case study of computing fractal images using the Farm-HOC.
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Alt, M., Dünnweber, J., Müller, J., Gorlatch, S. (2005). HOCS:Higher-Order Components for Grids. In: Getov, V., Kielmann, T. (eds) Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23352-0_10
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