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

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

• at a session director, receiving an assignment request from one or more clients to execute an application;
• at the session director, sending at least one address of a service manager operable to manage workloads for the application;
• in the service manager, receiving workloads for the application from the one or more clients through a binary interface of the service manager;
• in the service manager, seeking available service instances within the distributed computing system to process the workloads;
• from the service manager, initiating a request to a resource manager to establish additional available service instances to process the workloads if the service manager does not presently have access to available service instances having the necessary capacity, and wherein the resource manager and the service manager continue to operate if the session director fails;
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• from the service manager, sending the workloads through the binary interface of the service manager to one or more service instances running on one or more service hosts within the distributed computing system.

A method of providing a grid-enabled, service-oriented system, the method comprising:

• providing client application software containing instructions operable to submit assignment requests for an application from one or more clients and application workloads to the system;
• providing session manager software containing instructions operable to receive the assignment requests and instructions operable to send one or more addresses of one or more service managers operable to manage the application workloads, wherein the one or more clients can receive address information of the service manager from a session director in response to an assignment request for the application from the one or more clients;
• providing service manager software containing instructions operable to receive the application workloads and instructions operable to communicate directly or indirectly with service hosts on the system;
• providing resource management software containing instructions operable to allocate service hosts to the one or more service managers to execute the submitted workloads;
• wherein the resource manager and the service manager continue to operate if the session director fails;
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• providing service host application software containing instructions operable to receive the workloads directly or indirectly from operating instances of the service manager software;
• wherein at least one of the client application software instructions, the service manager software instructions, the resource management software instructions, and the service host software instructions contain instructions for operating a network communications interface that communicates workloads using binary communications protocols.