ProActive is a middleware (part of the OW2 consortium, with Open Source code) for parallel, distributed and multi-threaded computing.

ProActive provides a comprehensive framework and programming model to simplify the programming and execution of parallel applications: within multi-core processors, distributed on Local Area Network (LAN), on clusters and data centers, on intranet and Internet Grids.

Maintained By

The OW2 Consortium.

License

Open Source Java library (GPL 2)

Status

In production.

Security

Support for PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and RBAC (Role Based Access Control).

SLA

Partially through Autonomicity

Data Management

Data Transfer:

Currently support is provided for the following type of transfers:
To a remote node (Push)
From a remote node (Pull)

It could be used at:
deployment time (XML)
retrieval time (XML)
execution time (Objects API)

User Integration

Eclipse IDE and programmer APIs.

Core Functionalities

ProActive features the following:

an Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) ,
a resource acquisition and deployment framework ,
a set of parallel programming frameworks in Java, including:
- Master/Slave
- Branch & Bound
- SPMD
- Skeletons
- Active Objects (Actors)
- Legacy Code Wrapping
- a component framework as a reference implementation of the GCM.