Objectives 

GridCOMP main goal is the design and implementation of a component based framework suitable to support the development of efficient grid applications. The framework is evolved from Grid Component Model (GCM) specification defined within the Institute on Programming of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, and is implemented on top of the ObjectWeb ProActive Grid middleware. Among the main features, GCM supports the development and deployment of self-management grid applications based onto the autonomic computing paradigm, which is aimed to automatically enforce user-defined levels of QoS for the applications in instable execution environments.

The GCM source code and the documents linked here are referred to the development status after the first year of the GridCOMP project (D.NFCF.02 summer 2007). As regard the autonomic features, D.NFCF.02 supports composite components exploiting a self-optimising functional replication of stateless components. Several other self-management patterns are currently under test within the project. For additional information please contact Marco Danelutto (marcod AT di.unipi.it - GridCOMP WP3 coordinator).

Slides

• Adaptative Behavior with GCM. M. Aldinucci, S. Campa, M. Danelutto, P. Dazzi, D. Laforenza, N. Tonellotto. Slides of the presentation held at GridCOMP meeting, Beijing, China, Oct 2007.
• Autonomic Features in GCM. M. Aldinucci, S. Campa, M. Danelutto, P. Dazzi, D. Laforenza, N. Tonellotto. Slides of the presentation held at CoreGRID plenary meeting, Paris, France, Jan 2008.

Code and Tutorial

• GCM source code (with basic autonomic and non functional features - early prototype). GridCOMP deliverable D.NFCF.02-code, Jun 2007.
• Usage tutorial of the GCM with basic autonomic and non functional features. GridCOMP deliverable D.NFCF.02, Jun 2007.

Related papers

• M. Aldinucci, S. Campa, M. Danelutto, M. Vanneschi, P. Dazzi, D. Laforenza, N. Tonellotto, and P. Kilpatrick. Behavioural skeletons in GCM: autonomic management of grid components. In D. E. Baz, J. Bourgeois, and F. Spies, editors, Proc. of Intl. Euromicro PDP 2008: Parallel Distributed and network-based Processing, pages 54–63, Toulouse, France, Feb. 2008. IEEE.
• M. Aldinucci, S. Campa, M. Danelutto, P. Dazzi, P. Kilpatrick, D. Laforenza, and N. Tonellotto. Behavioural skeletons for component autonomic management on grids. In M. Danelutto, P. Frangopoulou, and V. Getov, editors, Making Grids Work, CoreGRID. Springer, June 2008.

GCM autonomic features step by step tutorial

Here you can find what you need to test the last version of the autonomic features of GCM. This material has already been used for tutorial. At the bottom of the page you can find six links. Please click all of these and download all the files. The first file contains a PDF tutorial, the second one contains the libraries used by the others four zip files containing eclipse projects. The PDF tutorial explains you, step by step, how to use the projects.

How to install

After the files download, uncompress zip files and import them as projects inside your eclipse workspace. The Core project must be always-on, so you need to keep it open. The other project can be open in turn.

Files to download

• Tutorial
  
• Libraries used by the fourth following Eclipse project, put these files in the lib directory of each following project
  
• Core Files 
• Plain component Pi example 
• Pi example version with autonomic-controller 
• Pi example version with autonomic-manager