Welcome to the Frontier Compute Platform!
The Frontier Compute Platform is the collection of software used to manage the Parabon Computation Grid. It's secure, OS-agnostic, unobtrusive and comes with a rich set of development tools to facilitate the rapid development of high-performance grid applications.
The Components
- The Frontier Compute Platform, which provides Frontier Grid Services to users and developers, is at the center of any Frontier grid.
- Frontier Applications are available for a number of problem domains - from financial forecasting and data mining to biological and nano-scale modeling and simulations, and more. Some of these applications have been designed to run within the Frontier Dashboard - a browser-based web interface that provides an intuitive front-end to the Frontier Compute Platform. Others operate as grid-powered desktop applications and still others are packaged as plug-ins to applications such as Microsoft® Excel®
- Frontier developer tools - including the Frontier Software Development Kit (SDK) and Eclipse IDE Plug-In - enable software engineers to create their own custom Frontier-enabled applications. Other tool-kits exist that provide frameworks for rapidly integrating existing applications with Frontier and also for performing evolutionary computation.
- Finally, the Frontier Compute Engine is the provider-side application that runs on each grid node (computer) to actually perform the work. The Compute Engine is designed to be unobtrusive - only executing tasks when the computer is otherwise idle.