Application deployment over heterogeneous grids using distributed ant

Author

Goscinski, Wojtek ; Abramson, David

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng.,, Monash Univ.

fYear

2005

fDate

1-1 July 2005

Lastpage

368

Abstract

The construction of large scale e-Science grid experiments presents a challenge to e-Scientists because of the inherent difficulty of deploying applications over large scale heterogeneous grids. In spite of this, user-oriented application deployment has remained unsupported in grid middleware. This lack of support for application deployment is strongly detrimental to the usability, evolution, uptake and continual development of the grid. This paper presents our motivation, design and implementation of the distributed ant user-oriented application deployment system, including recent extensions to support application deployment over heterogeneous grids. We also present a significant distributed ant deployment case study, demonstrating how a user-oriented application deployment system enables e-Science experiments

Keywords

grid computing; middleware; natural sciences computing; distributed ant; grid middleware; heterogeneous grids; large scale e-Science grid experiments; user-oriented application deployment; Application software; Computer networks; Computer science; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Middleware; Resource management; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science and Grid Computing, 2005. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2448-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.19

Filename

1572246