A System for Distributed Computing Based on H2O and JXTA

The main goal of this work is to build a uniform global computational network using H2O distributed computing framework and JXTA P2P technology. This computational network will give users new possibilities in building and utilizing of distributed computing systems, namely H2O kernels behind firewalls will be accessible and group management in JXTA will bring us possibility of creating virtual groups of kernels, which enables dynamic ad-hoc created collaborations. Our current implementation of H2O over JXTA allows user to export kernels having JXTA endpoints. This allows H2O metacomputing applications to seamlessly run across private networks and NATs, by using JXTA as an underlying connection technology. Communication between H2O kernels within JXTA network was made possible by adding a JXTA socket provider to RMIX. JXTA socket factories are used by RMIX to enable remote method invocations in the P2P environment.