flissi-gada-06

Summary

A Generic Deployment Framework for Grid Computing and Distributed Applications. Areski Flissi and Philippe Merle. In Proceedings of the 2nd International OTM Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'06), pages 1402-1411, Montpellier, France, November 2006.

Abstract

Deployment of distributed applications on large systems, and especially on grid infrastructures, becomes a more and more complex task. Grid users spend a lot of time to prepare, install and configure middleware and application binaries on nodes, and eventually start their applications. The problem is that the deployment process is composed of many heterogenous tasks that have to be orchestrated in a specific order. As a consequence, the automatization of the deployment process is currently very difficult to reach. To address this problem, we propose in this paper a generic deployment framework allowing to automatize the execution of heterogeneous tasks composing the whole deployment process. Our approach is based on a reification as software components of all required deployment mechanisms or existing tools. Grid users only have to describe the configuration to deploy in a simple natural language instead of programming or scripting how the deployment process is executed. As a toy example, this framework is used to deploy CORBA component-based applications and OpenCCM middleware on one thousand nodes of the French Grid5000 infrastructure.

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { flissi-gada-06,
    AUTHOR = { Areski Flissi and Philippe Merle },
    BOOKTITLE = { Proceedings of the 2nd International OTM Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'06) },
    TITLE = { {A Generic Deployment Framework for Grid Computing and Distributed Applications} },
    YEAR = { 2006 },
    MONTH = { nov },
    ADDRESS = { Montpellier, France },
    LONGNOTES = { 20061101 },
    PAGES = { 1402--1411 },
    VOLUME = { 4279 },
    SERIES = { Lecture Notes in Computer Science },
    PUBLISHER = { Springer-Verlag },
    GROUPS = { international,jacquard,mosaiques,conference },
    WEBSITE = { www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=gada2006cfp },
    ABSTRACT = { Deployment of distributed applications on large systems, and especially on grid infrastructures, becomes a more and more complex task. Grid users spend a lot of time to prepare, install and configure middleware and application binaries on nodes, and eventually start their applications. The problem is that the deployment process is composed of many heterogenous tasks that have to be orchestrated in a specific order. As a consequence, the automatization of the deployment process is currently very difficult to reach. To address this problem, we propose in this paper a generic deployment framework allowing to automatize the execution of heterogeneous tasks composing the whole deployment process. Our approach is based on a reification as software components of all required deployment mechanisms or existing tools. Grid users only have to describe the configuration to deploy in a simple natural language instead of programming or scripting how the deployment process is executed. As a toy example, this framework is used to deploy CORBA component-based applications and OpenCCM middleware on one thousand nodes of the French Grid5000 infrastructure. },
    LASTNAME = { Flissi },
    DATEADDED = { 2007-03-26 },
    LASTDATEMODIFIED = { 2007-03-26 },
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