Distributed Remote Architectures CORBA

An emerging trend in the Signal and Image Processing (SIP) community is the appearance of middleware and middleware standards that can be readily exploited for distributed computing applications by the SIP community. High performance computing and High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) applications will benefit significantly from highly efficient & portable computational middleware for signal & image processing. Open middleware standards such as VSIPL, MPI, CORBA, encoding and SOAP –based messaging protocols. More specifically, we will be focused on the appropriate use of such technologies for implementing new SIP applications, or extending legacy applications through the use of these technologies. The three middleware standards we have selected all have certain commonalities. All are based around the concept of a client application using the services available on a remote machine, or server. A remote executable object that implements one or more exposed interfaces provides these services. The object’s interface represents a contract between the client and the server. This interface is written as a Java interface for Java RMI, in IDL for CORBA, and in WSDL for web services. In the latter two cases, the more generic descriptions can be translated intospecific language imp lementations.