DeSa, Colin Joseph2014-03-142014-03-141991-06-08etd-08042009-040307http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44148The aim of this thesis is to research the issues involved in creating distributed problem solving environments for scientific computing. As part of our evaluation, we have developed a distributed problem solving environment called DPSolve which combines a very high level language, an interactive X Windows interface and a set of powerful problem solving methods into a single environment. The interface is designed to work on any system running X Windows, whilst the computations are done on a more powerful parallel computer. We implemented the interface on a DEC3100 workstation running ULTRIX, which communicates with procedures running on a Sequent 581 with 10 processors, running DYNIX via RPC. The design decisions and implementation details of our system are discussed at length along with a detailed example of the system at work. We critically evaluate the approach we have taken and show why it can scale to a very large class of scientific problems. We conclude that this distributed environment should be a representative of future scientific problem solving environments.vi, 69 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1991.D483Science -- Computer programsScience -- Computer simulation -- ResearchDistributed problem solving environments for scientific computingThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08042009-040307/