WebCom Core Information Module
Pushpinder Kaur Chouhan, Eddy Caron, Archana Patil, Adarsh Patil, John P. Morrison · 2007
Grid platforms are very promising but are very challenging to use because of their intrinsic heterogeneity in terms of hardware capacities, software environments and system administrator preferences. To avail of the Grid platforms ’ advantages easily and efficiently, Grid middlewares are being developed. WebCom-G, based on the WebCom platform, is a grid middleware that hides the complexity of Grid from the end users. WebCom is modular in architecture, constructed from core and user modules. This article outlines the functionality of the WebCom Information Module and presents a brief overview of WebCom and its other core modules. It also describes module interactions between WebComs running on different machines. The functionality of the core Information Module is presented in detail. In particular the questions: “What information the core information module provides?”, “How is the gathered information about the resource is stored within WebCom?”, “How stored information is retrieved and transferred within the WebCom and to other WebComs in the environment?”, “How this information can be efficiently used by other core modules as well as user modules? ” are addressed. I.