Articolo in rivista, 2007, ENG, 10.1504/IJWGS.2007.014953

The many faces of the integration of instruments and the grid

Lelli F.; Frizziero E.; Gulmini M.; Maron G.; Orlando S.; Petrucci A.; Squizzato S.

Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy; Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy; Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy; Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy; Università di Venezia, Venice - CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy; Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Padua, Italy

Current grid technologies offer unlimited computational power and storage capacity for scientific research and business activities in heterogeneous areas all over the world. Thanks to the grid, different virtual organisations can operate together in order to achieve common goals. However, concrete use cases demand a closer interaction between various types of instruments accessible from the grid on the one hand and the classical grid infrastructure, typically composed of Computing and Storage Elements, on the other. We cope with this open problem by proposing and realising the first release of the Instrument Element (IE), a new grid component that provides the computational/data grid with an abstraction of real instruments, and grid users with a more interactive interface to control them. In this paper we discuss in detail the implemented software architecture for this new component and we present concrete use cases where the IE has been successfully integrated.

International journal of web and grid services (Print) 3 , pp. 239–266

Keywords

Grid Computing

CNR authors

Orlando Salvatore

CNR institutes

ISTI – Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'informazione "Alessandro Faedo"

ID: 68430

Year: 2007

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2009-06-16 00:00:00.000

Last update: 2018-02-06 09:42:08.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:68430

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2007.014953