A Distributed Computing Experiment in a Metropolitan Network - Another Attempt to Implement Grid Computing

Grid Computing is a wide-area computing infrastructure viewed by many as a promising next generation platform for solving large-scale problems. Most of the current research projects concentrate on constructing middleware to provide pervasive, dependable, and consistent access to geographically distributed computational resources connected by a wide-area network. As an alternative, we are studying the feasibility of sharing computational resources connected to a high-speed city wide network using mature local network technologies, such as PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). This paper describes an experiment to run a distributed meteorological computing model over Wellington’s metropolitan network.