Design and implementation of a grid extension for Maple

Issue title: International Symposium of Parallel and Distributed Computing & International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogenous Networks

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Petcu, Dana | Paprzycki, Marcin | Dubu, Diana

Affiliations: Computer Science Department, Western University of Timişoara, and Institute e-Austria Timişoara, Romania. E-mail: {petcu,ddubu}@info.uvt.ro | Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University, USA, and SWPS, Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: marcin@cs.okstate.edu

Abstract: One of the important issues facing the development of the grid as a computational framework of the future is availability of grid-enabled software. In this context, we discuss possible approaches to constructing a grid-enabled version of a computer algebra system. Our case study involves Maple: the proposed Maple2g package allows the connection between Maple and the computational grids based on the Globus Toolkit. We present the design of the Maple2g package and follow with a detailed discussion of its implementation. Finally, we illustrate performance of Maple2g in a number of experiments.

Keywords: Grid computing, computer algebra system, grid middleware, Maple

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 137-149, 2005