Designing a Grid Computing Environment Shell Engine

We describe the design and features of our Grid Computing Environments Shell system, or GCEShell. We view computing Grids as providing essentially a globally scalable distributed operating system that exposes low level programming APIs. From these system-level commands we may build a higher level library of more user-friendly shell commands, which may in turn be programmed through scripts. The GCEShell consists of a shell engine that serves as a container environment for managing GCEShell commands, which are client implementations for remote Web Service/Open Grid Service Architecture services that resemble common UNIX shell operations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IC
• Authors: Mehmet A. Nacar, Marlon E. Pierce, Geoffrey Fox
• Keywords: Environments Shell System, IC 2003, IC 2007, UNIX Shell Operations, User-friendly Shell Commands