Speaker
Description
1. Short overview
Grid infrastructures, build over the last years, offer basic service (i.e. computing, storage) as well as high level services to make the underlying infrastructure transparent (i.e. RLS, RB). Many different application domains started to use Grid infrastructures for their research, but at the same time facing the common problems due to the inherit complexity of Grid infrastructures. The g-Eclipse framework will help the developers from different domains to port their applications to the Grid.
URL for further information:
www.geclipse.org
www.eclipse.org/geclipse
3. Impact
The g-Eclipse framework provides an extensible architecture based on the Eclipse mechanisms of extension points, plugins and bundles. By defining the extension points the g-Eclipse framework gets middleware independence and can connect to every middleware service available. The framework is flexible enough to develop plugins to new and emerging Grid services.
g-Eclipse provides already plugins and bundles to interact with existing Grid resources running gLite (i.e. EGEE, D-Grid). These implementation use existing API, WS interfaces or - where needed - own implementations to access the gLite services.
g-Eclipse extends the eco system of the Eclipse framework by using its components and by providing extension points for Grid functionality. i.e. g-Eclipse provides a new Grid Project View analogue to the Java Project View of Eclipse. The development of Grid applications is not limited to JAVA only, but to other programming languages too, as g-Eclipse is using results from other projects.
4. Conclusions / Future plans
With the help of the g-Eclipse framework, the Chinese wall between local and Grid resources will be broken and the Grid user can access Grid resources seamlessly by managing data, defining and submitting jobs, visualize data, etc. Furthermore the time-to-application will be shortened with the help of Grid development and Grid deployment tools. Last but not least, the Grid resources provider will be able to reduce the time-to-service of their offered resources and services.
Provide a set of generic keywords that define your contribution (e.g. Data Management, Workflows, High Energy Physics)
Tooling, Eclipse, middleware independent, Generic applications, Visualisation, Development, deploy.
