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GridWay is part of the Globus Toolkit - June 2007

The GridWay Metascheduler is a new component of the Globus Toolkit. Globus 4.0.5, released on June 21 2007, includes GridWay 5.2.1 as a component for metascheduling.
Under the framework of BE14, Globus GridWay is being enhanced to provide the scheduling funcionality required by GRID superscalar, which is being used as a Grid programming model for a process and product development application in the Chemistry sector, demonstrating the added value of Grids in this sector. The interface between these two widely used Grid technologies is based on the DRMAA OGF standard.
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GridWay Metascheduler
GRID Superscalar
DRMAA OGF standard

Release of GRID Superscalar as Open Source - June 2007

GRID superscalar (GRIDSs) has been released as Open Source. Under the framework of BE14, GRIDSs is being enhanced to be able to be interoperable with GridWay and is being used as a Grid programming model for a process and product development application in the Chemistry sector, demonstrating the added value of Grids in this sector.

GRIDSs is a Grid-unaware programming environment that allows to  program applications in a simple way.
These applications will be efficiently run on a computational Grid, as GRIDSs is able to parallelize them, at runtime and at task level.
Applications that can specially benefit from GRIDSs are those composed  of coarse grained tasks. The environment is composed of a  code-generation tool (gsstubgen), the Deployment-Center (which is a graphical tool for Grid configuration setting and application deployment), a powerful runtime library and a monitor. Two versions are currently under distribution: one for GT4 and another for SSH/SCP. While the first one is very well suited for Grids in general, the second one is specially good for Grids of clusters or for single clusters in particular.

Main features of GRID superscalar:

• Grid unaware programming model (Grid keeps transparent to the application)
• Bindings for C/C++, Java, Perl and shell script
• Automatic deployment and Grid configuration maintenance and test (through the Deployment Center)
• Automatic parallelization at task level through dynamic data-dependence analysis
• Dynamic scheduling and assignment of Grid resources
• Data-locality awareness
• Automatic file renaming and file transfer handling
• Checkpointing
• Fault-tolerance

Available at:

http://www.bsc.es/plantillaH.php?cat_id=373

GRID superscalar website, where you can find papers and manuals:

http://www.bsc.es/grid/gridsuperscalar

We encourage you to subscribe to the GRIDSs mailing list to receive future notifications about the tool: