PythonCLServiceTool: A utility for wrapping command-line applications for the Grid

Abstract

The international science community has invested large amounts of money in developing numerical and computational codes for everything from basic math to application specific codes. These codes are now a vital part of the scientific process. However, running these codes can be challenging. Many require a highly specialized environment, and may only run in a few locations. To maximize the usage of these codes, it is necessary to enable network access to them. We discuss our recent work in developing automated tools to enable network access to command line applications using Grid[1] tools. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.