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GriddLeS Enhancements and Building Virtual Applications for the GRID with Legacy Components

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The GriddLeS (Grid Enabling Legacy Software) middleware is a novel software layer that allows previously separate legacy applications to be coupled in a software workflow over the grid without any changes to the application source code. We have previously tested GriddLeS on a number of applications, including a small atmospheric sciences workflow in which weather and climate models are coupled. In this paper we describe a number of enhancements to the previous implementation [1] [2] that improve its performance significantly. Specifically, the new implementation improves the performance when small blocks are written over high latency networks. The paper also describes a much larger atmospheric sciences workflow than previously reported, that couples multiple global climate models, regional weather models and pollution models in one virtual application.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Caulfield, 3800, Australia

    Jagan Kommineni & David Abramson

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Section of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098, Amsterdam, SJ, The Netherlands

    Peter M. A. Sloot

  2. Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Alfons G. Hoekstra

  3. INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Thierry Priol

  4. Zuse Institute Berlin,  

    Alexander Reinefeld

  5. Institute of Computer Science, AGH, Poland

    Marian Bubak

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Kommineni, J., Abramson, D. (2005). GriddLeS Enhancements and Building Virtual Applications for the GRID with Legacy Components. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Priol, T., Reinefeld, A., Bubak, M. (eds) Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. EGC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508380_98

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