Bug#560255: ITP: nordugrid-arc-nox -- Grid Middleware of the NorduGrid
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>
* Package name : nordugrid-arc-nox
Version : 1.0.0
* URL : http://www.nordugrid.org/
* License : Apache
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Grid Middleware of the NorduGrid
The NorduGrid is a collaboration aiming at development, maintenance
and support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advanced Resource
Connector (ARC).
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The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) brings computing resources together
across institutional boundaries. This concept is commonly referred to as
a "computational grid". Historically, grids address the organisation of
distributed storage of data and parallel computation, but arbitrary services
are thinkable.
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Just like the web, ARC has its roots in the IT infrastructure that was
erected to analyse the experiments for high energy physics at CERN. The
first release, ARC-0.x, was dependent on Globus, the current release keeps
that compatibility but can also be used independently.
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With ARC-nox, formerly ARC-1, the user gains flexibility with additional
services and more supported platforms. The service developer notices
that even for persistent functionality across the two major versions,
what has been a script on the server side once, that was repeatedly
started and ran through, this has now become a service. Those are only
started once and can then be queried, which is far more efficient, far
more responsive, and is no longer stateless but can observe changes of
values over time.
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