Virtual Private Computing - A New Paradigm for Component-Based Distributed Applications

Virtual Private Computing - A New Paradigm for Component-Based Distributed Applications

Franz J. Hauck, Martin Steckermeier

english July 06, 2000, 10 pages

TR-I4-00-02

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Abstract: Although the number of devices connected to the Internet or some kind of intranet has grown tremendously over the last few years, there is still no widely accepted and uniform concept for designing applications that are able to meet the diverse requirements of such heterogeneous systems. The architecture that is presented in this paper overcomes these problems by creating a vision of a Virtual Private Computer that combines participating machines to a large, omnipresent computer. The integral part of this architecture is a programming model that supports the development of network aware applications composed of components, which are automatically distributed over the virtual computer based on information about properties of the environment.