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Simplifying Grid Application Programming Using Web-Enabled Code Transfer Tools

  • This paper deals with one of the fundamental properties of grid computing – transferring code between grid nodes and executing it remotely on heterogeneous hosts. Contemporary middleware relies for this purpose on Web Services, which makes application programs complicated and low-level and requires much additional expertise from programmers. We compare two mechanisms for grid application programming with regard to their handling of code transfer – the de-facto standard WS-GRAM in Globus and the higher-level approach based on HOCs (Higher-Order Components). We study the advantages and problems of each approach using a real-world application case study – the sequent alignment problem from bioinformatics. Our experiments show the trade-off between reduced development costs and software complexity when HOCs are used and the higher performance of the applications on the grid when using WS-GRAM.

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Author:Jan DünnweberORCiDGND, Cǎtǎlin L. Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72498-0_21
ISBN:978-0-387-72497-3
Parent Title (English):Towards Next Generation Grids
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Rennes, France
Editor:Thierry Priol, Marco Vanneschi
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2007
Release Date:2021/11/10
Tag:Application Code; Code Parameter; Distributed Systems; Executable Code; Globus Toolkit; Grid Application; Resource Management; Service Level Agreements
First Page:225
Last Page:235
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Labor Parallele und Verteilte Systeme
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Digitalisierung