Resource Propagation within a Hypercomputer

The aim of the Hypercomputer project is to provide workstation users a transparent access to remote computing resources, which are provided by workstation clusters or special purpose computers. In this paper the resource management concept of the Hypercomputer is presented. The fundamental idea, which inspired the scheme, how resources in this resource management concept are propagated, is the model of the potential field. Like an electric charge induces an electric field, in this scheme each resource induces a resource field. An orthogonal classification enables a superposition without a mixing up of independant resources. This results in a set of orthogonal resource fields. Within such a resource field a resource is located with a gradient search.