Interactive Computer Graphics.

The goal of this research in distributed computing is to evolve fundamental concepts as well as implementation techniques for improving system performance by judicious runtime distribution of functions to processors and to levels of a hierarchical operating system. This distribution of computing tasks among the various processors in a network or among the many levels of a hierarchical operating system in a single computer is a critical issue in current and future military, industrial, and educational computer systems. The present approach is to provide the applications programmer with tools that allow both the estimation of performance improvements of potential migrations, either horizontal inter-processor or vertical intra-processor, and the implementation of the most promising migrations.