What Can GAT Do?

So, GAT seems to fill a needed gap in existing ``Grid'' software. The devil, however, is in the details. What exactly can GAT do? Can it fulfill my ``Grid'' computing needs? Does it slice dice and Julian?

As the ``Grid'' consists of a loose collection of semi-related technologies, providing a uniform, usable interface to such a pied bunch is a tall task. So, in creating GAT the decision was made to put some things in and leave other things out. That which is in GAT represents the functionality most useful to the ``average'' application programmer. That which is not in GAT represents the functionality which is only marginally useful to the ``average'' application programmer. So, as in all things, everyone will have their belle de jour which, somehow, was left out of GAT, but the majority of application programmers will have the majority of their needs met the majority of the time. We aim to be the McDonalds of the ``Grid''...So, what can this GAT thing do really...

• File Management
  • Creating and Deleting Files
  • Coping and Moving Files
  • Examining Files
  
  
• FileStream Management
  • Creating and Destroying FileStreams
  • Reading and Writing on FileStreams
  • Seeking on FileStreams
  
  
• LogicalFile Management
  • Creating and Destroying LogicalFiles
  • Adding and Removing Files
  • Replicating LogicalFiles
  • Examining LogicalFiles
  
  
• Advertisable Management
  • Creating and Destroying an AdvertService
  • Adding and Deleting Advertiseables
  • Finding and Obtaining Advertisables
  
  
• Resource Management
  • Creating and Destroying a ResourceBroker
  • Creating and Destroying a ResourceDescription
  • Find Resources
  • Reserve a Resource Using a ResourceDescription
  • Reserve a Resource Using a Resource
  
  
• Interprocess Communication
  • Creating and Destroying Endpoints
  • Advertising Endpoints
  • Listening on Endpoints
  • Connecting on Endpoints
  • Write and Read on Pipes
  
  
• Job Management
  • Creating and Destroying Jobs
  • Examining Jobs
  • Scheduling and Un-Scheduling Jobs
  • Stopping Jobs
  • Checkpointing Jobs
  • Cloning Jobs
  • Migrating Jobs
  
  
• Monitoring
  • Get Metrics
  • Listening and not Listening for MetricEvents