Remote computing

Remote computing or distributed computing, as it is also referred to, is a technology that allows you to effectively include available hardware resources in your design process, thereby speeding up the overall computational time and consequently minimizing total development time. How does it work? The idea behind remote or distributed computing is to split and dispatch open computational tasks among idle hardware resources. These may be remote computers, far workstations or distant office hardware. Remote computing can employ virtually all available processing units. The distribution and result management  is handled through Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which connects remote computers. Generally, the computation time of processes supported through remote computing is reduced by the factor of additional powerful hardware components. Especially for computationally intensive tasks, the enormous relief and the savings in time and cost this technology yields are overwhelming.

Applied to the FRIENDSHIP-Framework, this technology allows the parallel execution of integrated tools on your local computer or on remote machines. You can use available multi-core processors (CPU) to execute multiple instances of the extern tools that are integrated into the FRIENDSHIP-Framework. You may well start the external tools on remote computers through the SSH protocol. With respect to large operations like variant calculation or hydrodynamic optimization, distributed computing streamlines and consolidates your workflow massively.  

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