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This paper gives a description of a software infrastructure that allows the execution of complex simulation applications on distributed systems. These systems involve several high-performance computing resources linked together by a wide area network. The targeted applications are made of several simulation codes that are in charge of simulating either different physics or several physical objects. The implementation of this software infrastructure is based on CORBA, an object-oriented middleware from the Object Management Group, that is widely accepted for the programming of distributed systems. The paper outlines different basic services that constitute the software infrastructure as well as several techniques to encapsulate both off-the-shelf commercial simulation codes and parallel simulation codes.
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Gouache, S., Priol, T. (2000). JACO3: A CORBA Software Infrastructure for Distributed Numerical Simulation. In: Engquist, B., Johnsson, L., Hammill, M., Short, F. (eds) Simulation and Visualization on the Grid. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57313-2_3
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