On building parallel & grid applications: component technology and distributed services

Author

Gannon, Dennis ; Krishnan, Sriram ; Fang, Liang ; Kandaswamy, Gopi ; Simmhan, Yogesh ; Slominski, Aleksander

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

38145

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Software component frameworks are well known in the commercial business application world and now this technology is being explored with great interest as a way to build large-scale scientific application on parallel computers. In the case of grid systems, the current architectural model is based on the emerging Web services framework. We describe progress that has been made on the common component architecture model (CCA) and discuss its success and limitations when applied to problems in grid computing. Our primary conclusion is that a component model fits very well with a services-oriented grid, but the model of composition must allow for a very dynamic (both in space and it time) control of composition. We note that this adds a new dimension to conventional service workflow and it extends the "inversion of control" aspects of must component systems.

Keywords

Internet; grid computing; object-oriented programming; software architecture; Web services; common component architecture model; distributed services; grid computing; parallel applications; service workflow; software component technology; Application software; Business; Component architectures; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Large-scale systems; Programming profession; Software libraries; Software performance; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, 2004. CLADE 2004. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2115-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLADE.2004.1309091

Filename

1309091