Nimrod (distributed computing)
Nimrod is a tool for the parameterisation of serial programs to create and execute embarrassingly parallel programs over a computational grid. Nimrod was one of the first tools to make use of heterogeneous resources in a grid for a single computation[1]. It was also an early example of using a market economy to perform grid scheduling[2]. This enables Nimrod to provide a guaranteed completion time despite using best-effort services[3].
The tool was created as a research project funded by the Distributed Systems Technology Centre. The principal investigator is Professor David Abramson of Monash University.
A commercial product based on Nimrod called EnFuzion is available from Axceleon.
References
- ^ Abramson, D. (1997). "The Nimrod Computational Workbench: A Case Study in Desktop Metacomputing" (PDF). Proceedings of the Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 97).
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