Integration of Grid Resources in the RCE Environment

Abstract

SESIS is a conceptual design and simulation system for the early design phases of ship development. The system empowers the engineers to perform complex collaborative simulations between the shipyards and suppliers over the internet. As part of the SESIS, the Reconfigurable Computing Environment (RCE) platform is developed, which serve as the base system for design and simulation that can be extended by third-party developers by using the RCE Software Development Kit. The purpose of the thesis is analyzing how and if the RCE platform can take advantage of grid resources. Various options for integrating Grid middleware in the platform will be presented and one option will be chosen: the option to develop a Grid-aware Software Development Kit. The SDK will have to integrate with the RCE Software Development Kit and at least will be designed to work with two grid middleware systems: Globus and UNICORE as this is a wish of the SESIS project. The requirement of such an SDK will be analysed and the API of the Grid-aware SDK will be designed and a Globus backend will be implemented.