Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming

Making Grids More Usable

Jan Dünnweber, Sergei Gorlatch

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
07 July 2009

Communications engineering & telecommunications; Grid computing

A major challenge in grid computing remains the application software development for this new kind of infrastructure. Grid application programmers have to take into account several complicated aspects: distribution of data and computations, parallel computations on different sites and processors, heterogeneity of the involved computers, load balancing, etc. Grid programmers thus demand novel programming methodologies that abstract over such technical details while preserving the beneficial features of modern grid middleware.

For this purpose, the authors introduce Higher-Order Components (HOCs). HOCs implement generic parallel/distributed processing patterns, together with the required middleware support, and they are offered to users via a high-level service interface. Users only have to provide the application-specific pieces of their programs as parameters, while low-level implementation details, such as the transfer of data across the grid, are handled by the HOCs. HOCs were developed within the CoreGRID European Network of Excellence and have become an optional extension of the popular Globus middleware. The book provides the reader with hands-on experience, describing a broad collection of example applications from various fields of science and engineering, including biology, physics, etc. The Java code for these examples is provided online, complementing the book. The expected application performance is studied and reported for extensive performance experiments on different testbeds, including grids with worldwide distribution.

The book is targeted at graduate students, advanced professionals, and researchers in both academia and industry. Readers can raise their level of knowledge about methodologies for programming contemporary parallel and distributed systems, and, furthermore, they can gain practical experience in using distributed software. Practical examples show how the complementary online material can easily be adopted in various newprojects.

By: Jan Dünnweber, Sergei Gorlatch
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: 2009 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9783642008405
ISBN 10: 3642008402
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 07 July 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

HOCs: Software Components for Grid Programming.- Higher-Order Component Service Architecture (HOC-SA).- Applications of Higher-Order Components.- HOCs With Embedded Scheduling and Loop Parallelization.- Conclusions and Related Work.

Jan Dunnweber has been working as a reasearcher in grid computing at the University of Munster since 2003. His work focuses on programming methodologies for grid platforms. Sergei Gorlatch is a professor in computer science at the University of Munster, Germany. His areas of expertise include high-performance computing, program calculi, as well as performance modeling, prediction and MPI programming.

Reviews for Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming: Making Grids More Usable

From the reviews: Dunnweber and Gorlatch's book provides an in-depth view of grid computing -- the technology allowing for sharing and accessing various resources located over the Internet. The authors successfully present the challenges of software development in grid environments ! . For beginners, this book provides a necessary introduction to the grid programming issues. For professionals, it provides solutions to particular, important problems. ! a proper reference in the area of grid programming for students, researchers, as well as distributed software developers for the years to come. (Jozef WoA niak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1179, 2010)