GridSolve: A System for Grid-enabling General Purpose Problem Solving Environments

GridSolve的目的是创建必要的中间件，在简单、标准的编程接口和桌面科学计算环境（SCE）之间提供无缝的桥梁。桌面科学计算环境主导着计算科学家的工作，并由新兴的网格体系结构支持丰富的服务供应。通过使用GridSolve，科学计算环境的用户可以轻松访问共享处理、存储、软件、数据资源等，并从中获益。Gridsolve将建立在NetSolve软件早期工作的基础上。这项工作将产生一种新的RPC机制Grid RPC，将为关键的通用sce提供客户端接口，将确保GridSolve能够绑定并利用所有主要的网格后端，将使GridSolve适应使用现有的网格服务（安全、资源监控），并将通过使用分布式存储资源为灵活的状态管理和数据物流提供支持。Gridsolve基于NetSolve软件的大量基础，并借鉴了在各种网格环境和应用程序中使用NetSolve的知识和经验。这一努力将使Matlab和Mathematica等工具能够在网格上工作，从而使网格技术和能力对更广泛的科学家和研究人员有用。

The purpose of GridSolve is to create the Middleware necessary to provide a seamless bridge between the simple, standard programming interfaces and desktop scientific computing environments (SCE) that dominate the work of computational scientists and the rich supply of services supporting by the emerging Grid architecture. Users of scientific computing environments can easily access and reap the benefits of shared processing, storage, software, data resources and so forth, by using GridSolve. Gridsolve will be build upon the work done earlier on NetSolve software. The work will lead to a new RPC mechanism Grid RPC, will provide client interfaces for key general purposes SCEs, will ensure that GridSolve can bind to and utilize all major Grid backends, will adapt GridSolve to use existing Grid services (security, resource monitoring) ,and will provide support for flexible state management and data logistics through the use of distributed storage resources.Gridsolve is based on a substantial base of NetSolve software, and draws upon knowledge and experience using NetSolve with a variety of Grid environments and applications. The effort will make tools like Matlab and Mathematica work on the grid, with the result that grid technologies and capabilities will be useful to an even broader base of scientists and researchers.