Speaker
Dr
Harald Kornmayer
(FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK))
Description
The simplification of the access to powerful Grid
infrastructures with the help of an
integrated Grid workbench tool is the goal of the g-
Eclipse project. The project
started on July 1, 2006 and is partially funded by the
European Commission. The
integrated Grid environment will address all needs of
possible Grid activities and
Grid actors. The current lack of an uniform Grid
workbench toolbox, which will be an
entry point to the Grid resources, will be removed with
the g-Eclipse framework. The
project plans to deliver the future workbench, bringing
together new users,
applications and Grid resource providers. The main goal
for g-Eclipse project is to
prepare integrated Grid environment for all grid
activities. The idea is, that the
same toolbox can be use for utilizing grids in
applications, for operating and
managing the grid infrastructure, and for developing
grid applications. g-Eclipse
will be based on Eclipse, probably the most successful
IDEs nowadays. Eclipse was
developed by IBM in 2001 and then turned to the
nonprofit Eclipse Foundation
(www.eclipse.org), to be managed as an open-source
platform.The architecture of the
g-Eclipse framework will be made for reuse and
extension to allow for easy adaptation
by new Grid applications. The g-Eclipse project will
address three major groups in
the Grid domain: Grid users will benefit from the
Windows-like access to Grid
resources; Grid operators and resource providers will be
able to reduce the
time-to-service by the Grid management and Grid site
configuration tools; and Grid
application developers will reduce the time-to-market
for new Grid applications by
accelerating the development and deployment cycle.
The g-Eclipse project aims for general support for
different Gird middleware systems,
but in the first year the g-Eclipse framework will include
exemplary support for the
gLite middleware.
The project itself, the main ideas and the requirements
to an EGEE infrastructure
will be presented. First integrated tools as prototypes
will be presented. The poster
should help to get in touch with potential users of the
framework, the gLite
middleware developers as well as with other
applications developers.
Author
Dr
Harald Kornmayer
(FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK))
