JPPF 1.0 grid platform generally is now available
JPPF 1.0 grid platform generally is now available
JPPF is a grid toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!
In this version:
A new, very efficient load balancing algorithm was added.
The administration console was upgraded accordingly.
The server performance was enhanced.
A web search engine application was added to the samples pack.
Many minor bugs were fixed.
JPPF has many outstanding features:
- a JPPF grid can be up and running in minutes
- highly scalable, distributed framework for the execution of Java tasks
- leverages JCA 1.5 to integrate with leading J2EE application servers
- easy programming model that abstracts the complexity of distributed and parallel processing
- graphical and programmatic tools for fine-grained monitoring and administration
- reliability through redundancy, recovery and failover capabilities
- a set of fully documented sample applications, demonstrating the use of JPPF on real-life problems
- very flexible and non-constraining open-source licensing
- and more ….
JPPF is available under the Apache Software License.
JPPF uses a standard server/client relationship, where a JPPF server farms out tasks to waiting clients (which can be J2EE servers, using the JCA module mentioned above.) Tasks are simple Java classes that are added to a submission queue, which then get sent out to waiting clients. The clients can share data using a number of mechanisms, including a memory map, url data providers, and others.