Towards High-Performance and Fault-Tolerant Distributed Java Implementations

Java Virtual Machines form an important part of the web and business server market. Distributed Java Virtual Machines have the potential to make a significant contribution to industries that utilize this technology. An attractive platform for this purpose is the cluster, a highly cost-effective and scalable parallel computer model. However, realizing on such a platform a high performance virtual machine implementation tolerant to hardware and software faults, and having efficient memory utilization, presents many challenging research issues. This project will address these issues by extending a highly efficient and extensible Java implementation to be aware of its cluster environment.