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Grid Computing
Experiment Management, Tool Integration, and Scientific Workflows
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4340
Sublibrary: Programming and Software Engineering
Prodan, Radu, Fahringer, Thomas
2007, XXIII, 317 p. Also available online., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-69261-4
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Grid computing has become a topic of significant interest in the scientific community as a means of enabling application developers to aggregate resources scattered around the globe for solving large-scale scientific problems. This monograph addresses four critical software development aspects for the engineering and execution of applications on parallel and Grid architectures.

A new directive-based language called ZEN is proposed for compact specification of wide value ranges of interest for arbitrary application parameters, including problem or machine sizes, array or loop distributions, software libraries, interconnection networks, or target execution machines. Based on the ZEN language, a novel experiment management tool called ZENTURIO is developed for automatic experiment management of large-scale performance and parameter studies on parallel and Grid architectures. This tool has been validated with respect to functionality and usefulness on several real-world parallel applications from various domains, including theoretical chemistry, photonics, finances, and numerical mathematics.