GridPPI: A Lightweight Grid-Enabled Parallel Programming Framework

Parallel application development for grids can benefit from tools that abstract the underlying grid middleware, hide the critical aspects of heterogeneous resources and provide utilities for parallelism. As a research on these issues, we have developed grid parallel programming interface (GridPPI), a Java library aiming at providing a framework for MPI-style development and execution of Java applications in service-oriented grids. GridPPI primarily comprises an open architecture that is adaptive to various grid platforms and an MPI-like parallel communication library that includes both basic and collective operations. We describe the design of GridPPI framework and its implementation on ChinaGrid Support Platform 2 (CGSP2) in detail, and present the performance evaluation