Developing Workflow Applications for Grid Computing

Grid computing enables the sharing of heterogeneousresources among different administrative domainspromising unlimited computational and storage poweravailable on demand. However Grid applications areoften developed in an ad-hoc manner with little or notransferability across them. Grid applications notonly need to adapt to evolving standards but theyalso need to adjust to a dynamic environment in whichresources can be added and removed on demand. Thisbook presents an approach that simplifies thedevelopment of Grid applications and empowersend-users to take full advantage of Gridinfrastructure. The approach uses domain specificmodeling a modern software engineering method forautomating the development of software to develop aworkflow tool that can be used by end-users to createcomplex Grid applications graphically. This bookprovides an introduction to Grid computing andworkflow systems as well as a practical exercise indomain specific modeling. As such this book shouldbe of great use for software engineers and anyoneelse interested in reaping the benefits of Gridcomputing and scientific workflows.