Interoperability between ARC and gLite - Understanding the Grid-Job Life Cycle

Author

Gronager, M. ; Johansson, D. ; Kleist, J. ; Sttrup, C. ; Waananen, A. ; Field, L. ; Qing, D. ; Happonen, K. ; Linden, Toni

fYear

2008

fDate

7-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

493

Lastpage

500

Abstract

ARC and gLite are two of the leading production-ready Grid middleware solutions being used by thousands of researchers every day. Even though the middlewares leverage the same technologies, there are substantial architectural and implementation divergences. Today, users face difficulties trying to cross the boundaries of the two systems. The gLite clients have so far not been capable of accessing ARC resources and vice versa. This paper is a follow up on an earlier proposal on how to enable interoperability between these two middlewares. Further, the paper presents a thorough walkthrough of the protocols and steps involved in the submission of a job in grids built up of the two different middlewares.

Keywords

grid computing; internetworking; middleware; open systems; protocols; resource allocation; ARC resource; WMS-gateway; gLite client; grid middleware; grid-job life cycle; interoperability; protocol; workload management system; Access protocols; Documentation; Large Hadron Collider; Middleware; Physics; Production; Proposals; Resource management; Software quality; Software tools; grid; interoperability; performance; standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eScience, 2008. eScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Indianapolis, IN

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3380-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2008.47

Filename

4736857