Applying Netsolve’s Network-Enabled Server HENRI

he NetSolve project, underway a t the Uniersity of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, lets users access computational resources, both hardware and software, distributed across the network. Thanks to a variety of interfaces, users can easily perform scientific computing tasks without having any computing resources installed on their computers. Research issues involved in the NetSolve system include fault tolerance, load balancing, user-interface design, computational servers, virtual libraries, and network-based computing. As the project matures, several promising extensions and applications of NetSolve will emerge. In this article, we describe the project and examine some of the extensions being developed for Netsolve: an interface to the Condor system, an interface to the ScaLapack parallel library, a bridge with the Ninf system, and an integration of NetSolve and Imagevision.