NetSolve has collaborated with the Logistical Computing Infrastructure
Lab (LoCI) at the University of Tennessee to integrate the distributed storage infrastructure
named Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP) into NetSolve. NetSolve has developed a preliminary mechanism
where the IBP infrastructure is used as a cache mechanism in cases where the same data has
to be communicated multiple times between the NetSolve clients and the servers. In these cases,
IBP storage depots are started near the NetSolve server locations where NetSolve problems are solved.
The NetSolve user first stores the data to the IBP depots and passes the pointers to the storage
locations in the NetSolve calls. The NetSolve server program, after retrieving the IBP pointers
from the NetSolve client, retrieves the data from the IBP depots and uses the data for problem solving.
The infrastructure is illustrated in the following figure.