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Dynamic testing of legacy code resources on the grid

Authors:

Gabor Terstyanszky,

Thierry Delaitre,

Stephen Winter,

Peter KacsukAuthors Info & Claims

CF '06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computing frontiers

Pages 261 - 268

https://doi.org/10.1145/1128022.1128057

Published: 03 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Architecture (GEMLCA) enables the exposure of legacy applications as Grid services without code re-engineering and with minimum user effort. GEMLCA is integrated with the P-GRADE Grid portal that provides a user-friendly Web interface to convert legacy applications into Grid services, and to create, submit and monitor the execution of complex Grid workflows composed of legacy and non-legacy components. However, users cannot be sure that the selected resources where the execution of workflow components is mapped are functioning properly. This paper describes how the current GEMLCA P-GRADE portal architecture is extended with resource testing capabilities allowing users to select only tested GEMLCA and Globus resources prior to workflow execution, or when recovering a failed workflow. It is also outlined, how the architecture can be extended in order to enhance the capabilities of current production Grid systems and Grid brokers with reliable and accurate resource availability information.

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Dynamic testing of legacy code resources on the grid
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
2. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability

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Dabrowski C(2009)Reliability in grid computing systemsConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.141021:8(927-959)Online publication date: 13-Feb-2009
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1410
Riedel MLaure ESoddemann TField LNavarro JCasey JLitmaath MBaud JKoblitz BCatlett CSkow DZheng CPapadopoulos PKatz MSharma NSmirnova OKónya BArzberger PWürthwein FRana AMartin TWan MWelch VRimovsky TNewhouse SVanni ATanaka YTanimura YIkegami TAbramson DEnticott CJenkins GPordes RSharma NTimm SSharma NMoont GAggarwal MColling Dvan der Aa OSim ANatarajan VShoshani AGu JChen SGalang GZappi RMagnoni LCiaschini VPace MVenturi VMarzolla MAndreetto PCowles BWang SSaeki YSato HMatsuoka SUthayopas PSriprayoonsakul SKoeroo OViljoen MPearlman LPickles SWallom DMoloney GLauret JMarsteller JSheldon PPathak SDe Witt SMencák JJensen JHodges MRoss DPhatanapherom SNetzer GGregersen AJones MChen SKacsuk PStreit AMallmann DWolf FLippert TDelaitre THuedo EGeddes N(2009)Interoperation of world-wide production e-Science infrastructuresConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.140221:8(961-990)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2009
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