Distributed computing with Triana on the Grid: Research Articles

  • Authors:

  • Ian Taylor;Ian Wang;Matthew Shields;Shalil Majithia

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, P.O. Box 916, Cardiff CF24 3XF, U.K.;School of Physics, Astronomy and Computer Science, Queens Buildings, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3YB, U.K.;School of Physics, Astronomy and Computer Science, Queens Buildings, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3YB, U.K.;School of Physics, Astronomy and Computer Science, Queens Buildings, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3YB, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe Triana, a distributed problem-solving environment that makes use of the Grid to enable a user to compose applications from a set of components, select resources on which the composed application can be distributed and then execute the application on those resources. We describe Triana's current pluggable architecture that can support many different modes of operation by the use of flexible writers for many popular Web service choreography languages. We further show, that the Triana architecture is middleware-independent through the use of the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT) API and demonstrate this through the use of a GAT binding to JXTA. We describe how other bindings being developed to Grid infrastructures, such as OGSA, can seamlessly be integrated within the current prototype by using the switching capability of the GAT. Finally, we outline an experiment we conducted using this prototype and discuss its current status. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.