 |
|
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
|
Applications:
TACC RELEASES GridPort VERSION 3.0
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at
Austin (UT Austin) has released its most recent version of the Grid Portal
Toolkit (GridPort), version 3.0. GridPort is a toolkit that facilitates
computational science by aiding in the development of science portals and
applications on top of underlying Grid computing infrastructure. In
particular, GridPort provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for using
distributed computing resources via a simple and consistent application
program interface for building Grid portals and applications.
The 3.0 release has several new features and installation improvements from
the beta version released in February. The new features include improvements
to GridPort architecture, administration client, demo portal and enhanced
GridPort usability. "The improved install and testing features and a complete
demonstration portal will help developers use GridPort to create portals more
quickly and with less effort," said Maytal Dahan, project manager for GridPort
3.0.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
The improved GridPort architecture now uses Hibernate for internal object and
relational mapping for persistence. Hibernate delivers a high-performance,
open source persistence framework that can greatly reduce the amount of time
and effort needed to code, test, and deploy reliable applications. Also,
Hibernate creates a considerably smaller footprint within the code, making the
code more maintainable.
Historical queries have been added to GridPort's informational capabilities
and the administration client now has more flexible editing features as well
as new help documentation for users. Three important new portlets have been
added to the demonstration portal-historical portlet, command execution and
batch job submission. The historical portlet allows a user to see a graphical
interface of archived Grid data such as the load of a system over a day, week
or month. The batch and command execution portlets allow a user to execute
interactive commands and submit batch jobs to a remote system.
The usability of GridPort is greatly improved in version 3.0 and there is a
much easier installation process. Also, GridPort 3.0 needs only a single
configuration file that has all the parameters to test GridPort and generates
HTML reports for easy comprehension. The new improvements will enhance the
efficiency and increase the productivity of the users of the toolkit.
GridPort 3 will be included in the next NMI Grid Release and is an important
tool being implemented on UT Grid, a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure project
to bring a distributed-knowledge environment to UT Austin research and
education.
TACC is offering a Building Grid Enabled Portals Using GridPort 3 course this
summer. Please see GridPort Training:
www.tacc.utexas.edu/services/training/Grid_portal.php for more details.
For more information about GridPort 3.0, see the Release Notes:
http://dev.Gridport.net/index.cgi?action=releases/Gridport3.html .
|