JavaNws: The Network Weather Service for the Desktop
Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski
Abstract
As research and implementation continue to facilitate high performance
computing in Java, applications can benefit from
resource management and prediction tools. In this work, we present such a tool
for network round trip time and bandwidth between a user's desktop and any
machine running a web server (this assumes
that the user's browser is capable of supporting Java 1.1 and above).
JavaNws is a Java implementation and extension of a powerful subset
of the Network Weather Service (NWS), a
performance prediction toolkit that dynamically characterizes and forecasts the
performance available to an application. The JavaNws capitalizes on
the Java execution model to eliminate
the need for NWS installation and login accounts on the machines of interest.
In addition, we provide a quantitative equivalence study of the Java and C
socket interface and show that the data collected by the JavaNws is
as predictable as, that collected by the NWS (using C).