Resources

A resource is any hardware or software entity providing some capability, i.e. a hardware or software resource. All classes representing resources are tagged as such through the interface GATInterface_IResource, which they all realize. In particular, there exist two classes which realize this interface GATSoftwareResource, a class which represents a software resource, and GATHardwareResource, a class which, as the name implies, represents a hardware resource. For example, an instance of the class GATSoftwareResource might represent a program to simulate the weather in Tokyo on the June 6th in the year 2020 while an instance of the class GATHardwareResource might represent the hardware on which to run this code, the Earth Simulator for example.