gEclipse - An integrated, Grid enabled workbench tool for Grid

Date and time: 24/07/2007, 16:00

Location: Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton

Presenters: Thomas Köckerbauer

Abstract: This seminar introduces into the g-Eclipse framework which will provide an integrated Grid environment for Grid users, Grid operators and Grid developers. The g-Eclipse tool will be built on top of the open source Eclipse framework, and will bring together expertise from the academic Grid community and from the Eclipse community. The latter has a deep commercial penetration in the Information Technology industry. The g-Eclipse integrated Grid environment will allow user-friendly access to Grid resources by making the complexity of the Grid invisible. The architecture of the g-Eclipse framework will be designed for reuse and extension to allow for easy adaptation by new Grid applications. The g-Eclipse project addresses three major groups in the Grid domain: Grid users will benefit from the Windows-like access to Grid resources; Grid operators and resource providers will be able to reduce the time-to-service by the Grid management and Grid site configuration tools; and Grid application developers will reduce the time-to-market for new Grid applications by accelerating the development and deployment cycle. The g-Eclipse workbench has the potential to be an integral part of the future researcher's workstation.

Speaker biographies: Thomas Köckerbauer started his PhD under the supervision of Professor Jens Volkert at the Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. His PhD project deals with finding communication patterns in events graphs using hardware accelerated techniques. His current interests are in: acceleration of computations using specialized hardware, debugging techniques in parallel programs, and visualization.