Architecture of the Grid Services Toolkit for Process Data Processing

Grid is a rapidly growing new technology that will provide easy access to huge amounts of computer resources, both hardware and software. As these resources become available soon, more and more scientiflc users are interested in beneflting from them. At this time the main problem accessing the Grid is that scientiflc users usually need big knowledge of Grid methods and technologies besides their own fleld of research. To flll the gap between high{level scientiflc Grid users and low{level functions in Grid environments the Grid Services Toolkit (GST) is developed at the IPE. Aimed to simplify and accelerate the development of parallelized scientiflc Grid applications, the GST is based on Web services extended by a rich client API. It is especially designed for the fleld of process data processing providing database access and management, common methods of statistical data analysis and project speciflc methods.