MyGrid – A complete solution for running Bag-of-Tasks Applications

MyGrid is a complete grid solution for running Bag-of-Tasks applications (i.e. parallel applications whose tasks are independent) over whatever resources are available to the user. MyGrid middleware empowers users to interoperate with heterogeneous computational resources across geographic and administrative boundaries. Due to MyGrid’s flexible architecture, it is easy to add a new kind of machine in the grid through an abstraction called grid machine. The grid machines implementations currently available in MyGrid are user agent, grid script and globus grid machine. This work shows how MyGrid works and its main concepts. We present a parallel application, MyPhotoGrid, in order to demonstrate a practical use of MyGrid.