title: Programming distributed medical applications with XWCH2.
abstract: Many medical applications utilise distributed/parallel computing in order to cope with demands of large data or computing power requirements. In this paper, we present a new version of the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) platform, and demonstrate two medical applications that run on XWCH. The platform is versatile in a way that it supports direct communication between tasks. When tasks cannot communicate directly, warehouses are used as intermediary nodes between "producer" and "consumer" tasks. New features have been developed to provide improved support for writing powerfull distributed applications using an easy API.
authors.affiliation: University of Geneva, Switzerland. mohamed.benbelgacem@unige.ch
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ben Belgacem
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niinimaki
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Abdennadher
mesh_terms: D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D012985:Software Design