Grid Interactive Service-Oriented Programming

Improvements in distributed computing, and the technologies that enable them, have led to significant improvements in middleware functionality and quality, mainly through networking and protocols. However, the distributed programming style is the same as ten, twenty, even thirty years ago. Most programs are still written line per line of code in languages like C, C++, and Java. These conventional programs that can provide grid operations and grid data can be considered as common grid resources and shared by research and education communities worldwide. However, there are no relevant programming methodologies to utilize efficiently these shared service providers as a potentially vast grid repository, except through the manual writing of code just as it was done decades ago. Realization of the potential of grid computing requires significant improvements in grid programming methodologies. The Grid Interactive Service-Oriented (GISO) methodology is presented that provides a programming environment with development tools that permit interactive (point-and-click), true grid programming, thus permitting the different elements of programming to be stored, reused, aggregated, and executed with a level of concurrency and grid-level control strategy not achievable in the conventional programming languages.