API specification for a small Grid Middleware - SCADY

In this fast and rapidly developing IT era, Grid computing is emerging and is being used in many industries and organizations. This has opened a window of attraction for research on Grid Architecture, Middleware and Services. Grid computing has resulted in faster execution of applications. Day by day the requirement for execution speed of applications is increasing. To achieve this suitable middleware is needed and to be configured requirement specific. An application can be executed faster only when there is no node failure or network failure. Moreover, at run time, if a node fails, there should be some alternative arrangement to reconfigure other node to complete the task which was supposed to be done by the failed node. Thus, a middleware is needed that can be configured according to the requirements of the application. Such a middleware would help in increasing the performance of the application. In most of the middleware available presently, dynamic configuration is not facilitated. This has become one of the reasons for the failure of adoption or implementation of Grid in many organizations. This paper proposes extended API specifications that can help in dynamic configuration of the middleware for execution of applications and efficient utilization of resources.