Seminar: g-Eclipse - Access the Power of the Grid

Speaker: Dr Ashish Thandavan,

ACET, University of Reading.

Date/Time: 26th November 2008, 13:00-14:00.

Location: Room G74, Philip Lyle Building.

Map: http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/maps/maps-display.asp

Abstract:

g-Eclipse started as a EC-funded FP6 project aiming to build a workbench framework to access existing grid infrastructures. It consists of plugins to Eclipse that extend its capabilities, providing tools to customize Grid users’ applications, to manage Grid resources and to support the development cycle of new Grid applications. It consists of a middleware-independent core architecture and middleware-specific functionality is implemented via plugins. While the gLite and GRIA middlewares are currently supported, g-Eclipse can be extended to support many different Grid middleware. Recently, g-Eclipse is also able to support access to Cloud Computing infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services.

This talk introduces g-Eclipse, its architecture, the three types of grid users it supports and goes on to describe the functionality available to access gLite and GRIA-based grid infrastructure.