Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming Making Grids More Usable /

• Main Authors: Dünnweber, Jan (Author), Gorlatch, Sergei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer programming.; Application software.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Programming Techniques.; Computer Applications.

A major challenge in grid computing remains the application software development for this new kind of infrastructure. Grid application programmers have to take into account several complicated aspects: distribution of data and computations, parallel computations on different sites and processors, he...

Table of Contents:

• HOCs: Software Components for Grid Programming
• Higher-Order Component Service Architecture (HOC-SA)
• Applications of Higher-Order Components
• HOCs With Embedded Scheduling and Loop Parallelization
• Conclusions and Related Work.