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The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development

Francine Berman

University of California, San Diego

Andrew Chien

University of California, San Diego

Keith Cooper

Rice University

Jack Dongarra

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ian Foster

Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago

Dennis Gannon

Indiana University

Lennart Johnsson

University of Houston

Ken Kennedy

Rice University

Carl Kesselman

University of Southern California

John Mellor-Crumme

Rice University

Dan Reed

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Linda Torczon

Rice University

Rich Wolski

University of California, Santa Barbara

Advances in networking technologies will soon make it possible to use the global information infrastructure in a qualitatively different way—as a computational as well as an information resource. As described in the recent book The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, this Grid will connect the nation’s computers, databases, instruments, and people in a seamless web of computing and distributed intelligence, which can be used in an on-demand fashion as a problem-solving resource in many fields of human endeavor—and, in particular, science and engineering. The availability of grid resources will give rise to dramatically new classes of applications, in which computing resources are no longer localized but, rather, distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic; computation is increasingly sophisticated and multidisciplinary; and computation is integrated into our daily lives and, hence, subject to stricter time constraints than at present. The impact of these new applications will be pervasive, ranging from new systems for scientific inquiry, through computing support for crisis management, to the use of ambient computing to enhance personal mobile computing environments. To realize this vision, significant scientific and technical obstacles must be overcome. Principal among these is usability. The goal of the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) project is to simplify distributed heterogeneous computing in the same way that the World Wide Web simplified information sharing over the Internet. To that end, the project is exploring the scientific and technical problems that must be solved to make it easier for ordinary scientific users to develop, execute, and tune applications on the Grid. In this paper, the authors describe the vision and strategies underlying the GrADS project, including the base software architecture for grid execution and performance monitoring, strategies and tools for construction of applications from libraries of grid-aware components, and development of innovative new science and engineering applications that can exploit these new technologies to run effectively in grid environments.

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 15, No. 4, 327-344 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/109434200101500401
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