Just-in-Time Gridification of Compiled Java Applications

CRISTIAN MATEOS; ALEJANDRO ZUNINO; MARCELO CAMPO; NICOLÁS GÓMEZ

Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires

Simposio; II Symposium on High-Performance Computing (HPC2009) - 38 JAIIO; 2009

SADIO (Sociedad Argentina de Informática)

Grids allow users to build applications with enormous demands forcomputational resources. Intuitively, this involves more development effort and expertise on Grid programming. The so-called gridification tools address these problems by deriving the Grid-enabled version of an application from its binary code. Unfortunately, most of such tools produce coarse-grained Grid applications that prevent developers from employing common tuning mechanisms such as parallelism and distribution, and are inflexible, since they were not thought to reuse existing Grid middleware services. We propose a new gridification tool for binary Java applications that solves these issues called BYG (BYtecodeGridifier). Results suggest that BYG can be employed to easily gridify and efficiently execute a broad range of computing intensive applications.