Metacomputing and the Master-Worker Paradigm

. The goal of our work is to create a tool that easily allows users to distribute large scientific computationsin metacomputing environments. To achieve this goal, a number of difficult implementation issues mustbe addressed, which may explain the relative lack of complete tools addressing this purpose. Our tool relies onthe simple master worker paradigm, and we show that this paradigm is nicely suited for performing many of therequisite tasks of our metacomputing tool. We describe an...