Integrated Development Environment for GARUDA Grid (G-IDE)

Grid is a seamless integration varied resources that are geographically distributed around the globe aiming to provide gigantic computational power. The heterogeneous, decentralized and distributed nature of Grid environment places special requirement for Grid applications management. With a large number of scientists eager to use the Grid, the need of the hour is to provide a means through which the user can exploit the Grid without getting bogged by its complexities for developing, building, executing and debugging their Grid applications. In other words, there arises a need for a common application development interface to compile, build, execute, debug and profile applications on heterogeneous environment like GARUDA Grid. The authors working at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have developed a Grid application development environment called G-IDE, which abstracts the grid technology diversity. G-IDE helps application developers to compile, build, execute, debug, and profile grid applications on remote resources efficiently. G-IDE helps in rapid development of grid applications by the scientific programming community. In this paper, the authors described details of its features, the design, architecture, and implementation of G-IDE.