Gridmake : the missing link for compilation in the Grid
- In order to take full advantage of Grid environments, applications need to be able to run on various heterogeneous platforms. Distributed runs across several clusters or supercomputers for example, require matching binaries at each site. Thus, at some stage, each Grid enabled application needs to be recompiled for every platform. Up to now, creating matching binaries on different platforms was a manual, sequential, slow, and very error-prone process. Developers had to log into each machine, transfer source code, check consistency and recompile if necessary. This cumbersome procedure is surely one reason for the (still existing) lack of production Grid computing. Gridmake, a tool to automate and speed up this procedure is presented in this paper.
Author details: | Henryk Feider, Bettina SchnorORCiDGND, Thomas Dramlitsch |
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Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2003 |
Publication year: | 2003 |
Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
Source: | Modern Algorithms in Computational Science and Information Technology : 19th PARS Workshop, March 19 - 21, 2003 at the University of Basel |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik und Computational Science |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik |