Alchemi [.NET Grid Computing Framework]

News

March 25, 2004
v0.6.1 is now available. Changes from v0.6.0:

• Bug fixes.
• No need to compile the GThread-derived class separately as a .dll .. all code can be in a single file (please see the Examples / documentation).
• Windows XP style UI for Manager and Executor.

March 19, 2004
v0.6.0 is now available. Changes from v0.5.2:

• Bug fixes.
• Fault tolerance: detection of disconnection of both dedicated and non-dedicated Executors and associated cleanup.
• Fewer delays with dedicated scheduling.
• Additional core functionality (abort thread, abort application etc.).
• Grid threads now execute in a System.Threading.Thread on the Executor.
• Error details (if any) of remotely executed thread available via the GThread.RemoteExecutionException property.
• API for submitting and monitoring tasks/jobs (including example application).
• Console user interface for submitting tasks/jobs and monitoring applications/threads and tasks/jobs (including example usage).
• Parallel Mandelbrot set generator sample application using the thread model.

Please see the "Grid Programming" section in the documentation for more information.

Download (Version 0.6.1)

Binaries (Windows Installers)

• Executor - Alchemi.Executor-0.6.1.msi
• Manager - Alchemi.Manager-0.6.1.msi
• Cross Platform Manager - Alchemi.XPManager-0.6.1.msi

Source - Alchemi-0.6.1-src.zip

SDK - Alchemi-0.6.1-sdk.zip

Documentation

HTML Documentation

Technical Report

• Alchemi: A .NET-based Grid Computing Framework and its Integration into Global Grids
  Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, and Srikumar Venugopal [ PDF ]

Screenshots

Contact

Questions, comments, feature requests, bug reports etc. to: Akshay Luther

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