General information
Distributed computing and collaborative work on scientific and commercial tasks has taken on greater significance in the past few years. The technical backbone of this trend is represented by so called Grids. Therefore worldwide Grid infrastructures evolved and are now ready to be used for mainly scientific but also industrial and commercial applications.
The g-Eclipse project provides a variety of tools to access such worldwide Grid infrastructures in a user friendly way. It is built on top of the Eclipse platform; therefore it is extensible to be adapted to many different middlewares. The framework itself comes with exemplary gLite support and support for GRIA is underway. Grid users are supported in order to easily access their personalized Grid resources, Grid resource providers profit from a shortening of the "service-to-market" time and Grid application developers benefit from the seamless integration of the remote development process into the existing Eclipse development environments using g-Eclipse.
This tutorial will introduce the g-Eclipse framework by enabling the participants to access a Grid infrastructure using g-Eclipse. The tutorial will cover topics like:
- Introduction to Grid computing
- Set up of the framework
- Creation of a Grid project
- Management of Data on Grids
- Job submission
- Managing Grid resources
- Developing a Grid example application including remote compiling and remote debugging
- Visualization of large data sets
- Best practice to extend the existing g-Eclipse framework
The participants will get access to a Grid infrastructure during the tutorial. This access will continue over a specific period to enable the participants to further evaluate the g-Eclipse framework and to demonstrate the benefits of a general Grid infrastructure and g-Eclipse to colleagues afterwards.
More information
For more information or to register to the training, please go at the gEclipse registration page.