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Remote Class Prefetching: Improving Performance of Java Applications on Grid Platforms

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2006)

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In this paper we introduce and evaluate two prefetching techniques to improve the performance of Java applications executed on the grid. These techniques are experimentally evaluated on two grid environments, by running test applications on two different grid deployment configurations. Our testbed is suma/g, a grid platform specifically targeted at executing Java bytecode on Globus grids. The experimental results show that these techniques can be effective on improving the performance of applications run on the grid, especially for compute intensive scientific applications.

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  1. Departamento de Computación y Tecnología de la Información, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas, 1080-A, Venezuela

    Yudith Cardinale, Jesús De Oliveira & Carlos Figueira

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione - Second, University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, via Roma, 29 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  4. Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Nordbergstr. 15/C/3, A-1090, Vienna, Austria/JPL, Caltech, USA

    Hans P. Zima

  5. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, TN 37996-3450, Knoxville, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  6. Grid Computing Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Feilong Tang

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Cardinale, Y., De Oliveira, J., Figueira, C. (2006). Remote Class Prefetching: Improving Performance of Java Applications on Grid Platforms. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T., Di Martino, B., Zima, H.P., Dongarra, J., Tang, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11946441_56

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