General Running Service: An Execution Framework for Executing Legacy Program on Grid

Author

Liu, Likun ; Wu, Yongwei ; Yang, Guangwen ; Ma, Ruyue ; He, Feng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

529

Abstract

Legacy program execution system, which is necessary for grid to enable users to reuse all legacy programs without reengineering source codes, is still an open problem. We propose general running service (GRS) as a legacy program execution framework to solve two of the most important problems, shielding heterogeneousness of all kinds target system and exactly configuring complex execution environments required by legacy program. In this paper, we first abstract the task model of grid task as the core of our execution framework, following with some conceptions of GRS are provided including application deployment, JSDL job submission and target system adapter. And then the detail of GRS implementation in ChinaGrid Support Platform (CGSP) is provided. Furthermore, the performance of GRS through comparing with GRAM of GT4 is also evaluated

Keywords

grid computing; software maintenance; software reusability; ChinaGrid Support Platform; JSDL job submission; application deployment; general running service; grid computing; legacy program execution; legacy program reuse; target system adapter; Computer interfaces; Computer network management; Computer science; Control systems; Grid computing; Helium; IP networks; Information science; Laboratories; Resource virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshops, 2006. GCCW '06. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2695-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCW.2006.46

Filename

4031602