GridLab

The GridLab project is one of the biggest European research undertakings in the development of application tools and middleware for Grid environments. GridLab produces a set of application-oriented Grid services and toolkits providing capabilities such as dynamic resource brokering, monitoring, data management, security, information, adaptive services and more. Services are accessed using the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT). The GAT provides applications with access to various GridLab services, resources, specific libraries, tools, etc. in a way that the end-users and especially application developers can build and run applications on the Grid without needing to know details about the runtime environment in advance. Applications use the GAT through a fixed GAT API.

GAT is a set of coordinated, generic and flexible APIs for accessing Grid services from, for example, generic application codes, portals, data managements systems, together with working implementations provided by the tools developed in the GridLab project. GAT is designed in a modular plug-and-play manner, such that tools developed anywhere can be plugged into GAT.

Related

• GRMS The Gridlab Resource Management System