UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE 
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

SPECIAL SEMINAR


Speaker:
Jon Weissman

University of Minnesota
Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
 

Community Services:
Putting High-end Network Services On-line

A substantial base of community codes for supporting high performance computational science and 
engineering applications have been developed over the years. These codes are on the high-end in terms of 
computation, storage, and communication requirements. Recently, there has been considerable interest in 
putting such applications (e.g. data mining, theorem proving, computational biology, computational 
chemistry, parallel numerical computation, remote visualization) on-line and packaging them as network 
services. Network services allow the user to focus on their application, while the service provider 
maintains the service and all of its complexities. Putting high performance codes on-line will create a new 
generation of community services.

We describe our vision of a re-usable run-time infrastructure for deploying community services. In this 
talk, we will focus on one aspect of the project: achieving scalable performance in spite of high service 
demand. Techniques for performance prediction, service replication, and adaptive resource management 
will be described.  One of the novel aspects of our approach is that resource allocation is a fluid process in 
which resources can be dynamically allocated and deal located to service requests while running. We also 
believe the Community Service approach is well suited to Grid computing and describe this aspect of the 
project.


Friday ~ April 5, 2002
1:00 p.m. ~ Room 206 ~ Claxton Complex