The Icet Project: an Environment for Cooperative Distributed Computing

IceT: Distributed Computing and Java

Metacomputing, or distributed processing on networks (local networks, intranets, or the Internet), has re-emerged as a technology with tremendous promise and potential, owing in part to the emergence of the Java language and programming system. Java both innuences and is innuenced by the requisite and dynamic aspects of network programming. However, its viability as a programming language for t...

The IceT Environment for Parallel and Distributed Computing

The IceT Framework for Metacomputing

IceT is based on the premise that distributed computations involve resources, processes, data, and users, and that secure yet exible mechanisms for cooperation and communication between these entities is the key to metacomputing infrastructures. The IceT computing environment is a dynamically changing virtual machine which is constructed by assembling multiple hosts or by merging of, or recursi...

The resource-constraint project scheduling problem of the project subcontractors in a cooperative environment: Highway construction case study

Large-scale projects often have several activities which are performed by subcontractors with limited multi-resources. Project scheduling with limited resources is one of the most famous problems in the research operations and optimization cases. The resource-constraint project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem in which the activities of a project must be scheduled to reduce the p...

Metacomputing with the ICET System

IceT is based on the premise that distributed computations involve resources, processes, data, and users, and that secure yet flexible mechanisms for cooperation and communication between these types of entities is the key to metacomputing infrastructures. The basis for IceT computing is process-oriented distributed memory multicom-puting, but with key differences, including merging and splitti...