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pyGlobus: a Python interface to the Globus Toolkit™
Author(s) -
Jackson Keith R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.683
Subject(s) - python (programming language) , computer science , grid , grid computing , interface (matter) , e science , resource (disambiguation) , software engineering , world wide web , operating system , computer network , geometry , mathematics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method
Developing high‐performance, problem‐solving environments/applications that allow scientists to easily harness the power of the emerging national‐scale ‘Grid’ infrastructure is currently a difficult task. Although many of the necessary low‐level services, e.g. security, resource discovery, remote access to computation/data resource, etc., are available, it can be a challenge to rapidly integrate them into a new application. To address this difficulty we have begun the development of a Python‐based high‐level interface to the Grid services provided by the Globus Toolkit. In this paper we will explain why rapid application development using Grid services is important, look briefly at a motivating example, and finally look at the design and implementation of the pyGlobus package. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.