Towards Global Computing for Image Processing using Java

Abstract

We discuss the issues of global computing and design a prototype system for group collaboration and distributed image processing in this paper. The proposed system provides an infranstructure to allow users to use the system resources, to upload image processing Java classes to our system, and to do volunteer conputation. In order to support various input, output formats of image processing, the general I/O format is designed and is wrapped into objects. To reuse the existing paralleel computiong software, we also incorporate the Java applet-based computing with Java enabled PVM software to provide efficient reliable computing resources.