7 april 2006 8 KOALA feature 3: support for HOCs Higher-Order Components: Pre-packaged software components with generic patterns of parallel behavior Patterns: master-worker, pipelines, wavefront Benefits: Facilitates parallel programming in grids Enables user-transparent scheduling in grids Most important additional middleware: Translation layer that builds a performance model from the HOC patterns and the user-supplied application parameters Supported by KOALA (with Univ.
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