ISENGARD: an infrastructure for supporting e‐science and grid application development

Abstract

Grid computing facilitates the aggregation and coordination of resources that are distributed across multiple administrative domains for large-scale and complex e-Science experiments. Writing, deploying, and testing grid applications over highly heterogeneous and distributed resources are complex and challenging. The process requires grid-enabled programming tools that can handle the complexity and scale of the infrastructure. However, while a large amount of research has been undertaken into grid middleware, little work has been directed specifically at the area of grid application development tools. This paper presents the design and implementation of ISENGARD, an infrastructure for supporting e-Science and grid application development. ISENGARD provides services, tools, and APIs that simplify grid software development.

The discourse on tool integration beyond technology, a literature survey

“…Category 1. Discusses non-functional properties in relation to tool integration (53%) (Arnold, 1994), (Tilley, 1994), (Daberitz and Kelter, 1995), (Wong, 1999), , , (Grundy et al, 2006), (Bull, 2008), (de Alwis and Murphy, 2008), (Kurniawan and Abramson, 2008), (Ertürkmen, 2010), , (Kurniawan and Abramson, 2011), , (Biehl et al, 2012b), (Qureshi, 2012) Category 8. Evaluates standards, reference models or specications related to tool integration (8%) , (Brown, 1993a), , (Zelkowitz, 1993), (Cuthill, 1994), (Barrett et al, 1996), (Wallace and Wallnau, 1996), (Shi, 2007), (Skoglund, 2012) Category 9.…”

Application Development

“…In the case studies, we conducted various development activities such as editing and compiling source files; executing and debugging the compiled applications. Detailed treatment of the case studies including the testbed environment is given in [72]. The case studies demonstrate that the ISENGARD software infrastructure can be used with a large-scale project such as GROMACS.…”