Simple grid access for parameter study applications

Abstract

The problem domain of Parameter Study covers a wide range of engineering and scientific tasks which can be easily processed parallel. However, the research community users, who would like to benefit from the supercomputing power of a Grid are not familiar with the required distributed computing techniques. For this reason, the presented Salève development framework aims to free this limit by providing a general solution for PS tasks by inserting an abstraction layer between the user application and the Grid middleware. We design a new Salève plugin for the gLite middleware of the EGEE Grid and discuss the authentication issues. © 2008 Springer.