Bern Grid Day May 7, 2007 Working Group on Application development aspect: upper software, middleware layers P.Kuonen, V.Jongeneel, M.-C.Sawley, W.Sudholt

Bern Grid Day May 7, 2007 Layers End user interface (programmer, user) Basic Grid Services OS Networks services End user applications Some magic stuff

Bern Grid Day May 7, 2007 Group topics Applications –How to develop and to deploy a Grid Application Algorithms, Programming models –Legacy applications How to benefit from Grid infrastructure –How to safely run Grid applications Grid access –Benchmarking How to benchmark/validate Grid applications

Bern Grid Day May 7, 2007 Group topics Upperware –Programming/execution models/tools/library Development, re-engineering, execution –Security/Privacy models Is certificates still the appropriated model –Grid portals How final user is exposed to the Grid –Accounting models Is Grid economically attractive

Bern Grid Day May 7, 2007 Bootstrap Status of Grid users in Switzerland –For which scientific domain do they use Grid ? –What benefit they expect in using Grid ? Status of upperware in Switzerland –How users access Grid infrastructure ? –Which programming model/tool do they use ? –Which infrastructure do they access ?