A grid-enabled workflow PSE for computational applications

Abstract

Due to the heterogeneity and the large volume of resources involved; the complexity of computational applications and their Grid environments, the importance of problem solving environment (PSE)s been more emphasized. Currently, most PSE systems for computational applications mainly focus on development of an application for a specific domain and helping its execution with static resource configuration but does not consider of general form of PSE toolkit for its deployment to extended domains. This paper proposed a Grid-enabled PSE called as a Computing Environment for Grid Applications (CEGA) and discuss how it is evolving to develop a computational application in a style of workflow model and incorporate Grid computing services to extend its range of services and handle information for development, deployment, execution and maintenance for an application as well as an application requirement itself. In addition, the paper provides the architecture of CEGA and its implementation for development, execution and visualization of an application in detail.