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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S21717/01
Title:	Enhancing the Performance Predictability of Grid Applicationswith Patterns and Process Algebras
Principal Investigator:	Cole, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Gilmore, Professor S Hillston, Professor J
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Project Partners:	Imperial College London
Department:	Sch of Informatics
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 September 2003	Ends:	30 November 2006	Value (£):	182,357
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Communications
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The allied problems of programmability, cost predictability and scheduling are exacerbated in a Grid context by the unpredictable and variable availability and performance of resources. This project investigates the possibility of augmenting a component based Grid High Performance Computing framework with a mechanism for constructing applications as instantiations of pre-defined application patterns. Each pattern will encapsulate the logical behaviour of a familiar pattern of multi-component interaction, at a level of abstraction which simplifies the developer's task, without over constraining the selected implementation. The definition and manipulation of semantic and performance behaviour of components and patterns will be facilitated by the use of a performance oriented process algebra.
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