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Instrument Monitoring, Data Sharing, and Archiving Using Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA)

“…Considerable work , has been done in the areas of computational and storage grids and on combining computing and storage resources. Another important development in scientific computing is the application of component software technologies , that promise to enhance code modularity, encapsulation, and reuse. At the confluence of component software engineering and Grid computing is Web Services and a Globus-centric implementation, Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA; note that a list of abbreviations and acronyms is given at the end of this paper). , Web Services provides a platform-independent, location-independent means to execute code through a remote procedure call or document-oriented interface.…”

Programming, Composing, Deploying for the Grid

“…Grid programmers may be categorized into three groups, such as defined in [7]: the first group are end users who program pre-packaged Grid applications by using a simple graphical or Web interface; the second group are those that know how to build Grid applications by composing them from existing application "components", for instance by programming (using scripting or compiled languages); the third group consists of the developers that build the individual components. Providing the user view of the Grid can also be seen as a twolevels programming model [8]: the second level is the integration of distributed components (developped at the first level), together into a complete executable.…”

“…But the next generation of programming models for wide area distributed computing is aimed at further enforcing code reuse and simplifying the developer's and integrator's task, by applying the component oriented methodology. We share the goal of providing a component-based high-performance computing solution with several projects such as: CCA [7] with the CCAT/XCAT toolkit [11] and Ccaffeine framework, Parallel CORBA objects [12] and GridCCM [13]. But, to our knowledge, what we propose is the first framework featuring hierarchical distributed components.…”