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The Applications & Tools Requirements Working Group
Welcome to the home page for the Applications & Tools
Requirements Working Group established during the first Grid
Forum meeting at NASA Ames in June 99.
- Gridforum 4 - Summer 2000 at Micrsoft
- We now have a collection of 4 usage scenarios that need to polished.
- What have we done since the first working group?
- What progress did we make on Day 2 of Gridforum?
- What conclusions and future directions did our working group discuss the last day?
The success of the Grid depends on three efforts:
- the development of a software infrastructure that presents a
robust, efficient and accessible system image to users and program
developers,
- the development of a substantial community of users and program
developers who are satisfied that they can achieve performance for
their codes at the problem sizes and time-frames of interest and under
ordinary production conditions, and
- the design and implementation of programming tools and environments
that contribute to the development and performance of Grid programs.
All three activities are complementary and are critical to the success
of the Grid. In particular, it is critical to develop a user
community as the Grid emerges so that infrastructure builders have a
target for their efforts, and so that the Grid will be easy to use and
performance-efficient for users when an adequate software
infrastructure has been developed and put into place.
The Grid Forum Applications and Tools Requirements Working Group was
founded to provide critical information on the needs and requirements
of Grid Application developers and end-users as well as tool
developers to the developers of Grid infrastructure and services. The
idea was to explicitly define the requirements of emerging Grid
applications and tools for infrastructure developers, and to engender
a forum by which application developers can share information and
express their needs.
At the present time, there are a growing number of Grid applications
as well as nascent efforts in the development of tools. The Grid
Forum Applications and Tools Requirements Working Group is charged
with the documentation of applications and tools usage scenarios and
requirements to provide important information to other Working Groups
within the Grid Forum, and the review of emerging standards from the
other Grid Forum working groups to ensure that they meet applications
needs.
- Development and specification of requirements for and evaluation of emerging standards which promote development and performance of grid applications and tools
- Encourage the development of an application-friendly grid
The goals of this working group are to
- promote the development of a Grid Users group and testbed,
- to communicate applications and tools requirements to Grid
infrastructure and services developers, and
- to assist in the reviewing of standards produced by other groups
to ensure that they will meet the requirements of common emerging Grid
applications and tools.
The Working Group shall:
- Promote the development of Grid software and infrastructure that
enables application and tool performance, portability, and ease-of-use
by review of and feedback for emerging Grid Forum standards.
- Provide information about application and tools requirements for
common emerging Grid applications.
- Assist in the evolution and development of a Grid User's Group.
- Produce articles and documentation aimed at identifying, and
developing a user community for the Grid.
- Assist in the development of a testbed for applications and tools
developers.
- GF3 Meeting (March) Produce drafts of 4-5 Usage Scenarios [Berman,
Mehotra, Novotny, O'Halloran, others]
- GF3 Meeting (March) Preliminary plans for GF application testbed
[Feiereisen]
- GF3 Meeting (March) Preliminary plans for GF User's Group [Thomas,
Hood]
- GF4 Meeting (July?) Produce final drafts of GF3 Usage Scenarios,
generate 4-5 additional drafts of usage scenarios
[scenario authors]
- GF4 Meeting (July?) Plan archival publication with most common usage
scenarios [O'Halloran]
- Publicize working group to gather additional participants
- Collect user information and develop application and tools scenarios
- Development of applications, tools and infrastructure should happen concurrently and
interactively
- Timeframe dependent on working groups with emerging standards
- Advocate the application and tool developers’ and user’s perspective in the
development of grid infrastructure and standards to promote ease of use and application
performance on the grid
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Last reviewed:
December 31, 1969