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Summary: Application Deployment over Heterogeneous Grids
using Distributed Ant
Wojtek Goscinski and David Abramson
{wojtekg,davida}@csse.monash.edu.au
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Abstract
The construction of large scale e-Science grid experi-
ments presents a challenge to e-Scientists because of the
inherent difficulty of deploying applications over large
scale heterogeneous grids. In spite of this, user-oriented
application deployment has remained unsupported in grid
middleware. This lack of support for application deploy-
ment is strongly detrimental to the usability, evolution,
uptake and continual development of the grid. This paper
presents our motivation, design and implementation of the
Distributed Ant user-oriented application deployment sys-
tem, including recent extensions to support application
deployment over heterogeneous grids. We also present a
significant Distributed Ant deployment case study, demon-
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