GridRun: A lightweight packaging and execution environment for compact, multi-architecture binaries
John M. Shalf, Tom Goodale · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2004
GridRun offers a very simple set of tools for creating and executing multi-platform binary executables. These ''fat-binaries'' archive native machine code into compact packages that are typically a fraction the size of the original binary images they store, enabling efficient staging of executables for heterogeneous parallel jobs. GridRun interoperates with existing distributed job launchers/managers like Condor and the Globus GRAM to greatly simplify the logic required launching native binary applications in distributed heterogeneous environments.