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Applications Development for the Computational Grid

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The Computational Grid has promised a great deal in support of innovative applications, particularly in science and engineering. However, developing applications for this highly distributed, and often faulty, infrastructure can be demanding. Often it can take as long to set up a computational experiment as it does to execute it. Clearly we need to be more efficient if the Grid is to deliver useful results to applications scientists and engineers. In this paper I will present a raft of upper middleware services and tools aimed at solving the software engineering challenges in building real applications.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, 3800, Australia

    David Abramson

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  1. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, China

    Jianzhong Li

  3. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Heng Tao Shen

  4. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 153-8505, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaru Kitsuregawa

  5. Victoria University, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Abramson, D. (2006). Applications Development for the Computational Grid. In: Zhou, X., Li, J., Shen, H.T., Kitsuregawa, M., Zhang, Y. (eds) Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006. APWeb 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11610113_1

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