[ieeetcsc-discuss] GRID superscalar now as Open Source

[Rosa M. Badia]

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Release of GRID superscalar as Open Source
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The GRID superscalar (GRIDSs) project at the Barcelona Supercomputing  
Center (BSC-UPC, Spain) is pleased to announce the distribution as Open  
Source of the different components in the GRIDSs programming  
environment, both for Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4) and SSH/SCP. GRIDSs is 
distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

GRIDSs is a Grid-unaware programming environment that allows to  program 
applications in a simple way. These applications will be efficiently run 
on a computational  Grid, as GRIDSs is able to parallelize them, at 
runtime and at task level. Applications that can specially benefit from 
GRIDSs are those composed  of coarse grained tasks. The environment is 
composed of a  code-generation tool (gsstubgen), the Deployment-Center 
(which is a graphical tool for Grid configuration setting and 
application deployment), a powerful runtime library and a monitor. Two 
versions are currently under distribution: one for GT4 and another for 
SSH/SCP. While the first one is very well suited for Grids in general, 
the second one is specially good for Grids of clusters or for single 
clusters in particular.

Main features of GRID superscalar:

- Grid unaware programming model (Grid keeps transparent to the 
application)
- Bindings for C/C++, Java, Perl and shell script
- Automatic deployment and Grid configuration maintenance and test 
(through the Deployment Center)
- Automatic parallelization at task level through dynamic 
data-dependence analysis
- Dynamic scheduling and assignment of Grid resources
- Data-locality awareness
- Automatic file renaming and file transfer handling
- Checkpointing
- Fault-tolerance

Available at:

http://www.bsc.es/plantillaH.php?cat_id=373

GRID superscalar website, where you can find papers and manuals:

http://www.bsc.es/grid/gridsuperscalar

We encourage you to subscribe to the GRIDSs mailing list to receive 
future notifications about the tool:

grid-superscalar at bsc.es


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Rosa M. Badia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Grid Computing and Clusters Manager
			
Building Nexus II 
Jordi Girona 29
E08034 - Barcelona
                                                                                
Tel. +34 - 93 413 4075
Fax. +34 - 93 413 7721
www.bsc.es/grid
www.bsc.es/cellsuperscalar
people.ac.upc.edu/rosab/
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