Grid-enabled, service-oriented architecture for enabling high-speed computing applications

A service manager installed on one or more computing devices for operation in a distributed computing system, the distributed computing system for receiving workloads from one or more client applications and executing those workloads on one or more service instances running on one or more service hosts within the distributed computing system, the service manager comprising:

• a workload input interface operable to receive workloads associated with an application from one or more clients for execution on the distributed computing system;
• a resource management interface operable to identify available service hosts or service instances for computing the workloads received from the one or more clients;
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• a workload output interface operable to send workloads received from the workload input interface to the one or more service instances;
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• wherein the workload input interface receives address information of the workload output interface from the resource management interface in response to an allocation request for the one or more hosts or service instances by the workload input interface.

A method of managing services in a service-oriented architecture distributed computing system, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a workload input interface, workloads associated with an application from one or more clients for execution on the distributed computing system;
• identifying, by a resource management interface, available service hosts or service instances for computing the workloads received from the one or more clients;
• responsive to receiving an allocation request for the one or more hosts or service instances by the workload input interface, providing, by the resource management interface, address information of one or more workload output interfaces;
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• sending, by the one or more workload output interfaces, workloads received from the workload input interface to the one or more service instances.