Grid Services Base Library: A high-level, procedural application programming interface for writing Globus-based Grid services

TitleGrid Services Base Library: A high-level, procedural application programming interface for writing Globus-based Grid services
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsBazinet AL, Myers D.S, Fuetsch J., Cummings MP
JournalFuture Generation Comp SystFuture Generation Comp Syst
Volume23
Abstract

The Grid Services Base Library (GSBL) is a procedural application programming interface (API) that abstracts many of the high-level functions performed by Globus Grid services, thus dramatically lowering the barriers to writing Grid services. The library has been extensively tested and used for computational biology research in a Globus Toolkit-based Grid system, in which no fewer than twenty Grid services written with this API are deployed.