Dear all, I take great pleasure in announcing the first official release of Gridder. This email is being sent out to grid and cluster related mailing lists on which I have been asking questions recently. We the people who participated in this project believe this announcement may be of interest to the community (please accept our apologies if you do not find it interesting).
Gridder is an open-source project consisting of a suite of portlets which are designed to enable users to submit jobs in a grid environment, without the need of an extensive technical background. It comes with a full manual and it also includes documentation produced during development, which addresses topics related to grid and cluster set up and configuration. Gridder seamlessly integrates with OGCE, as it was the focus during the whole development process. Many of you have helped with this project by replying to emails I have been sending to these lists during the last year. To all of you, and to the whole grid and cluster community, the most sincere thanks on behalf of all the people who participated in this project. Some more infomation on the history and scope of the project follows. Gridder was developed at Hexacta, a privately-held software development company in Argentina, and sponsored by a national scientific promotion agency. Briefly, the Gridder project consisted of setting up a grid and a cluster from scratch, researching and applying that knowledge to some concrete development. That development was a set of portlets designed to simplify job submission tasks with end-user friendliness in mind, and a well defined separation of concerns from the user point of view (namely tasks and jobs), and from the technical point of view (namely the architecture and design). While there is a lot of improvement that can be made to them, you may find these portlets and the ideas they present useful. Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. I would also like to take advantage of this opportunity to invite all of you who might be interested in participating in this project to go ahead and write back, in order to become members. If you would like to take a look at the project, please visit the Gridder web site at http://gridder.sourceforge.net and the SourceForge project site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridder Thank you all, Matt on behalf of the people who participated in the Gridder project
