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Grid Application Programming Environments

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Future Generation Grids

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One challenge of building future grid systems is to provide suitable application programming interfaces and environments. In this chapter, we identify functional and non-functional properties for such environments. We then review three existing systems that have been co-developed by the authors with respect to the identified properties: ProActive, Ibis, and GAT. Apparently, no currently existing system is able to address all properties. However, from our systems, we can derive a generic architecture model for grid application programming environments, suitable for building future systems that will be able to address all the properties and challenges identified.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Thilo Kielmann, Andre Merzky & Henri Bal

  2. INRIA, I3S-CNRS, UNSA Sophia Antipolis, France

    Francoise Baude, Denis Caromel & Fabrice Huet

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Kielmann, T., Merzky, A., Bal, H., Baude, F., Caromel, D., Huet, F. (2006). Grid Application Programming Environments. In: Getov, V., Laforenza, D., Reinefeld, A. (eds) Future Generation Grids. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29445-2_15

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