Pawel Plaszczak
Perfringo Grid Solutions and Argonne National Laboratory
Porting applications to Globus Toolkit 3.0 and designing an OGSI-based architecture
Abstract:
This tutorial will explore the issues involved in the process of engineering
the applications on top of the OGSA and Globus Toolkit 3.0.
The latest major edition of the Globus Toolkit allows developers to
build applications in a grid service oriented architecture. This new
technology based on web services opens a wide range of new
possibilities, but at the same time requires a certain discipline from
the software designer and poses new challenges to the project manager.
We will explore the pros and cons of moving applications into an OGSI
compliant architecture. The question whether it makes sense to grid enable a
software component can be answered by identifying and comparing the potential
benefits and dangers of such move.
We will later move to discuss the features of the Open Grid Service
Architecture. We will demonstrate how to apply them to chosen applications.
Finally the technology issues will be discussed, and participants will get a
feel of the problems expected at the implementation level.
The workshop will be strongly based on real examples. One of the examples we
wish to explore is the process of designing and builging the NeesGRID's NTCP
component, the first application of GT3.0 deployed in production.
We encourage the participants of the tutorial to submit their own questions,
problems and suggestions related to their own experience or plans of building
a GT3.0-based application layer infrastructure. We will spend time analyzing
the submitted questions and exploring them on the tutorial. Information is
available at http://perfringo.com/events/
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