The Open Grid Forum is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardisation effort for grid computing. OGF accelerates grid adoption to enable business value and scientific discovery by providing an open forum for grid innovation and developing open standards for grid software interoperability. The work of OGF is carried out through community-initiated working groups, which develop standards and specifications in cooperation with other leading standards organisations, software vendors, and users. The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organisations in more than 50 countries.
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Porting Applications to Grids
Wolfgang Gentzsch (EU Project DEISA and Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum, Germany)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-661-7.ch004
Abstract
Aim of this chapter is to guide developers and users through the most important stages of implementing software applications on Grid infrastructures, and to discuss important challenges and potential solutions. Those challenges come from the underlying grid infrastructure, like security, resource management, and information services; the application data, data management, and the structure, volume, and location of the data; and the application architecture, monolithic or workflow, serial or parallel. As a case study, the author presents the DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications and describes its DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative DECI for porting and running scientific grand challenge applications. The chapter concludes with an outlook on Compute Clouds, and suggests ten rules of building a sustainable grid as a prerequisite for long-term sustainability of the grid applications.