Sustainability through flexibility: Building complex simulation programs for distributed computing systems

Unix Domain Sockets Applied in Android Malware Should Not Be Ignored

“…A Unix domain socket is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system, and such sockets are a standard component of POSIX operating systems [25,26]. The APIs for Unix domain sockets are similar to those of Internet sockets; however, rather than using an underlying network protocol, all communication occurs entirely within the operating system kernel.…”

Integrating Generic FEM Simulations into Complex Simulation Applications

“…After the generic FEM service finished all FEM simulation tasks, the submission of the FEM simulation tasks performed by the optimisation component 2is completed. In [12], we have presented the SCDC library that is specifically designed for implementing complex simulation applications with a component-based service-oriented approach as described in this subsection. The usage of the SCDC library for implementing the simulation application for the optimisation of lightweight structures including the flexible use of FEM codes introduced in this work is given in Section 4.…”

“…In the following, we give an overview of the SCDC library and describe their usage for implementing the client and service components described in Section 2.2. A more detailed description of the SCDC library is given in [12]. 4.1.…”

“…The development of scientific applications for complex problems often leads to complicated program codes that are hard to maintain and less portable in terms of their performance on different hardware platforms. Component-based development approaches can provide means to handle this complexity, especially if several independently developed application programs have to be integrated into a single complex simulation [12]. Important aspects of these approaches are the implementation of new components or the integration of existing components, the efficient data exchange between components based on various communication methods, and the flexibly distributed execution of components on different hardware platforms.…”

“…We present the design of this conversion component and describe its support for two different FEM input data formats. Finally, we describe the implementation of the program components of the simulation-based optimisation application and their interactions based on the Simulation Component and Data Coupling (SCDC) library [12]. The SCDC library supports different data exchange methods, such as direct function calls, inter-process communication, and network communication.…”