SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE WITH VISUAL MODELING TOOL FOR DESIGNING AND DEPLOYING COMPLEX MODELS TO DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING CLUSTERS

A distributed computing design system facilitates the creation and deployment of complex data and mathematical models. In one implementation, the system generates a graphical user interface of a visual distributed computing design workspace. The visual distributed computing design workspace includes a node palette comprising individually selectable nodes, each with a graphical representation and corresponding to a distributed computing function available on a pre-determined target distributed computing cluster, a linking tool for establishing connection links between the individually selectable nodes, and a digital canvas. The system, with modeling circuitry, responds to interactions with the graphical user interface to facilitate visually building a data model by accepting node selections of specific nodes from the node palette, placing the specific nodes on the digital canvas, accepting linking selections of dataflow connections between the specific nodes, and linking the specific nodes as specified by the linking selections.