It is the blueprint specification for standards-based grid computing. “Open” refers to both the standards-development process and the standards themselves. OGSA is “service-oriented” because it delivers functionality among loosely-coupled interacting services that are aligned with industry-accepted Web service standards. “Architecture” defines the components, their organizations and interactions, and the overall design philosophy.
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ProGenGrid: A Grid Problem Solving for Bioinformatics
Maria Mirto (University of Salento and SPACI Consortium, Italy), Italo Epicoco (University of Salento and SPACI Consortium, Italy), Massimo Cafaro (University of Salento and SPACI Consortium, Italy), and Sandro Fiore (University of Salento and SPACI Consortium, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-374-6.ch014
Abstract
In this chapter, the ProGenGrid (Proteomics and Genomics Grid) research project, which started in 2004, is described. It is a Grid Problem Solving Environment, specialized for the Bioinformatics domain, which aims at providing an integrated environment in order to compose, schedule and monitor biological applications in a Computational Grid. The main feature offered by this environment is the possibility to use a friendly web interface for composing workflow jobs, scheduled on different grid middleware.