Java Heterogeneous Distributed Computing refers to a programmable
Java
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distributed system which was developed at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. It allows researchers to access the spare
clock cycles of a large number of semi-idle desktop
PCs. It also allows for multiple problems to be processed in parallel with sophisticated scheduling mechanisms controlling the system. It has been successful when used for tackling problems in the areas of
Bioinformatics
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,
Biomedical engineering
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and
cryptography
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.
It is an
open source project licensed under the
GPL.
See also
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List of volunteer computing projects
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Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.
The components of a distributed system commu ...
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Java
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Heterogeneous Java Distributed Computing
Distributed computing projects
Software using the GNU General Public License
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