Programming Research Group
Research Report RR-05-07
Scientific Middleware for Abstracted Parallisation
Daniel Goodman and Andrew Martin
Nov 2005, 25pp.
Abstract
This paper describes a distributed web service based middleware platform, written to
support the abstracted parallelisation of functions. This abstraction is achieved
through the combination of Martlet, a work-flow language that uses constructs from
functional programming to abstract the parallelisation in computations away from
the user, and the construction of supporting middleware. To build a middleware that
supports this requires the middleware to be able to reason about the data structures it
holds without restricting their nature. Issues covered in the development of this
supporting middleware include being able to handle distributed data transfer and
management, function deployment and execution.