SAGA: A Simple API for Grid Applications -- High-Level ApplicationProgramming on the Grid
Grid technology has matured considerably over the past fewyears. Progress in both implementation and standardization is reaching alevel of robustness that enables production quality deployments of gridservices in the academic research community with heightened interest andearly adoption in the industrial community. Despite this progress, gridapplications are far from ubiquitous, and new applications require anenormous amount of programming effort just to see first light. A keyimpediment to accelerated deployment of grid applications is the scarcityof high-level application programming abstractions that bridge the gapbetween existing grid middle-ware and application-level needs. The SimpleAPI for Grid Applications (SAGA [1]) is a GGF standardization effort thataddresses this particular gap by providing a simple, stable, and uniformprogramming interface that integrates the most common grid programmingabstractions. These most common abstractions were identified through theanalysis of several existing and emerging Grid applications. In thisarticle, we present the SAGA effort, describe its relationship to otherGrid API efforts within the GGF community, and introduce the first draftof the API using some application programming examples.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Advanced ScientificComputing Research; Max Planck Institute for Gravitationphysics. PoznanSupercomputing Center
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 917305
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-59066; R&D Project: KX1310; BnR: KJ0102000; TRN: US200816%%501
- Journal Information:
- Computational Methods in Science andTechnology, Vol. 12, Issue 1; Related Information: Journal Publication Date: 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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