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iMW
A Web-based Problem Solving Environment for Metacomputing Applications. Marcel Good and Jean-Pierre Goux. Metacomputer-based solvers are difficult to distribute; by their nature they are often tied to a specific virtual machine that is widely distributed and highly heterogeneous. To make such solvers useful to a wide community of users, we need tools to provide remote access. iMW provides services for remote submission, monitoring and steering of MW based metacomputing applications from a Web-browser. CORBA is used to enable communication with the solver. Status information is made available in XML allowing flexible design of customized interfaces. We developed an example of Web-based Problem Solving Environment to solve large instances of the Quadratic Assignment Problem. We demonstrated this environment at the SuperComputing 1999 Conference in Portland. More information about iMW :
The figure below shows the architecture of the iMW Environment and the different system components. The environment in this form has been demonstrated at the Supercomputing Conference 1999 in Portland. The Condor Pool used in our setup leverages the flocking technology described in section in order to combine the Northwestern Pool with the Pool at the University of Wisconsin. This decision was mainly driven by sociological issues, which prevented us from setting up a Web Gateway in Wisconsin. As a nice side effect, we empower the user to submit to a much bigger pool than the two individual pools by themselves. 
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