Title
ICENI: optimisation of component applications within a Grid environment
Abstract
Effective exploitation of Computational Grids can only be achieved when applications are fully integrated with the Grid middleware and the underlying computational resources. Fundamental to this exploitation is information. Information about the structure and behaviour of the application, the capability of the computational and networking resources, and the availability and access to these resources by an individual, a group or an organisation.In this paper we describe Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure (ICENI), a Grid middleware framework developed within the London e-Science Centre. ICENI is a platform-independent framework that uses open and extensible XML derived protocols, within a framework built using Java and Jini, to explore effective application execution upon distributed federated resources. We match a high-level application specification, defined as a network of components, to an optimal combination of the currently available component implementations within our Grid environment, by using composite performance models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this architecture through the high-level specification and solution of a set of linear equations by automatic and selection of optimal resources and implementations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S0167-8191(02)00187-4
Parallel Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
component application,effective application execution,london e-science centre,imperial college e-science,component framework,platform-independent framework,effective exploitation,high-level application specification,high-level specification,service oriented architecture,grid environment,open grid services architecture,grid middleware,grid middleware framework,component composition,linear equations
Grid computing,Open Grid Services Architecture,XML,Computer science,Data grid,Implementation,Semantic grid,Grid,Service-oriented architecture,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
12
Parallel Computing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
48
4.53
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nathalie Furmento130027.19
Anthony Mayer213917.20
Stephen McGough39813.30
Steven Newhouse413520.24
Tony Field514418.45
John Darlington6484.53