JavaScript grid abstractions
Gregor von Laszewski, Fugang Wang, Andrew Younge, Zhenhua Guo · RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology) · 2007
In this paper, we describe a Grid abstraction frame-work that allows access to the Grid infrastructure using JavaScript while leveraging the power of current Grid mid-dleware and upperware toolkits such as the Globus Toolkit and the Java Commodity Grid (CoG) Kit. The system is heavily based on Web 2.0 technologies and allows access-ing the Grid through a Service-Oriented Architecture. An application interface in JavaScript is provided to enable developers to access Grid services from JavaScript. More-over, our framework includes additional services to enable the creation of advanced Grid services. The availability of our framework simplifies not only the development of new services but also the development of advanced client side Grid applications. We demonstrate this ability while pro-viding a mechanism to develop Grid workflows through ad-vanced services and a graphical user interface defined in JavaScript. Overall, Grid developers will have another tool at their disposal that projects a simpler way to distribute and maintain software while at the same time being able to deliver quickly advanced interfaces and social services for the scientific community.