Title :
GRENADE: a Grid Enabled Desktop Environment
Author :
Marsh, J. ; Pettifer, S. ; Hanlon, D. ; Pickles, S. ; MacLaren, J. ; Foster, M.
Author_Institution :
Manchester Univ., UK
Abstract :
Making grid technology available to a wider community requires moving away from the complex command line tools commonly in use today towards a more transparent and user-friendly interface. We seek to address this challenge by presenting the notion of a Grid Enabled Desktop Environment (GRENADE), seamlessly extending the familiar desktop user-interface paradigm to interactions with grid resources. This paper describes our initial implementation.
Keywords :
graphical user interfaces; grid computing; human computer interaction; resource allocation; GRENADE prototype; Grid Enabled Desktop Environment; grid technology; user-friendly interface; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Grid computing; Isolation technology; Printers; Printing; Problem-solving; Prototypes; Silicon; Utility programs;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2004. WET ICE 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshops on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2183-5
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.2004.33
