Implementing remote evaluation

Stamos, James W.; Gifford, David K.

doi:10.1109/32.56097

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“…There are two similar approaches to the mechanism of remote scope. Remote evaluation (REV) [19] supports the evaluation of a procedure in remote machine by remote evaluation. For this, the procedure to be evaluated in a remote machine is transmitted to the remote machine with arguments via network.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ubiscript: A Script Language for Ubiquitous Environment

Lee¹,

Han²

2011

Journal of Computing Science and Engineering

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Many distributed and heterogeneous services and devices are accessible in ubiquitous computing environment, so interoperating those services and devices is one of the key tasks in implementing ubiquitous applications. We used to use script languages in integrating such interoperating components and services. However currently available most script languages are not suitable for ubiquitous environment because there are so diverse forms of interoperation targets such as service objects, web, legacy objects and programmable devices. So it is worthwhile designing a new script language well-suited to ubiquitous environment. In this paper, we propose a new script language, called Ubiscript, for the ubiquitous environment. We develop and adopt several unique language features such as remote scope, multiple contexts, web and legacy objects, remote exception handling, etc. in Ubiscript to overcome the limitations of conventional script languages. In this paper, we also describe the implementation of Ubiscript and its runtime system. A couple of ubiquitous applications were developed in Ubiscript, and the applications are tested on the runtime system. According to our experiences and evaluation, Ubiscript turned out to have a high potential in its expression power and contribution to improving ubiquitous application developers' productivity.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ubiscript: A Script Language for Ubiquitous Environment

Lee¹,

Han²

2011

Journal of Computing Science and Engineering

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“…Remote evaluation [19] is a form of mobile code in which a client sends code to a server to be executed. It generalizes remote procedure calls, which can be viewed as a form of remote evaluation where the code is a single call.…”

Section: Remote Evaluationmentioning

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Language design for distributed objects

Cook

Tilevich

Ibrahim

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Distributed Objects for the 21st Century

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The fundamental ideas of distributed objects have changed little in the last 20 years. Existing languages are retrofitted with transparent distribution mechanisms based on proxies.Experiments with mobile code demonstrate its power but have little impact on practice. The problems with transparency and mobile code have been well known since at least 1994. But in the absence of any fundamental new ideas, the same problematic approaches are used, for example in the design of Java RMI. In this essay we discuss a new programming construct called Remote Batch Invocation (RBI). A batch is a code block that combines remote and local execution over fine-grained object interfaces, but is executed by partitioning and remote evaluation. Remote Batch Invocation effectively addresses the shortcomings of transparent distribution with a controlled form of mobile code. Our experience leads us to believe that distribution cannot be implemented as a library, but requires specific language support. Viewing distribution as a language design problem represents a revolutionary step in the development of distributed objects.

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“…Falcone developed a LISP-based language called NCL to support remote function evaluation (RFE) [19]. In a different approach, Stamos and Gifford developed a remote form of evaluation [37], which introduces the execution of a function at a remote node. In contrast to these approaches, RIBs are openended blocks for which the target machine for execution is unknown until execution time.…”

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“…The Remote Evaluation (REV) has been developed for providing migration of executable code to servers [37]. The main motivation in developing REV is to reduce the clientserver communication.…”

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Anonymous remote computing: a paradigm for parallel programming on interconnected workstations

Joshi

Ram

1999

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Abstract-Parallel computing on interconnected workstations is becoming a viable and attractive proposition due to the rapid growth in speeds of interconnection networks and processors. In the case of workstation clusters, there is always a considerable amount of unused computing capacity available in the network. However, heterogeneity in architectures and operating systems, load variations on machines, variations in machine availability, and failure susceptibility of networks and workstations complicate the situation for the programmer. In this context, new programming paradigms that reduce the burden involved in programming for distribution, load adaptability, heterogeneity, and fault tolerance gain importance. This paper identifies the issues involved in parallel computing on a network of workstations. The Anonymous Remote Computing (ARC) paradigm is proposed to address the issues specific to parallel programming on workstation systems. ARC differs from the conventional communicating process model by treating a program as one single entity consisting of several loosely coupled remote instruction blocks instead of treating it as a collection of processes. The ARC approach results in distribution transparency and heterogeneity transparency. At the same time, it provides fault tolerance and load adaptability to parallel programs on workstations. ARC is developed in a two-tiered architecture consisting of high level language constructs and low level ARC primitives. The paper describes an implementation of the ARC kernel supporting ARC primitives.

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Implementing remote evaluation

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Ubiscript: A Script Language for Ubiquitous Environment

Ubiscript: A Script Language for Ubiquitous Environment

Language design for distributed objects

Anonymous remote computing: a paradigm for parallel programming on interconnected workstations

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