Grid Application Programming Environments

One challenge of building future grid systems is to provide suitable application programming interfaces and environments. In this chapter, we identify functional and non-functional properties for such environments. We then review three existing systems that have been co-developed by the authors with respect to the identied properties: ProActive, Ibis, and GAT. Apparently, no currently existing system is able to address all properties. However, from our systems, we can derive a generic architecture model for grid application programming environments, suitable for building future systems that will be able to address all the properties and challenges identied.

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