Contents

• UsersManual
  • A DIET platform
    • DIET components
    • Communications layer
    • DIET initialization
    • Solving a problem
    • DIET Extensions
      • Multi-MA
      • Performance prediction with CoRI
      • Using Batch systems
      • Using services in Clouds
      • Developing and deploying an application centric scheduling
      • Explicit data management with DAGDA
      • Building an application as a workflow
      • And the rest
  • DIET installation
    • Dependencies
      • General remarks on DIET platform dependencies
      • Hardware dependencies
      • Supported compilers
      • Operating system dependencies
      • Software dependencies
    • Compiling the platform
      • Obtaining and installing cmake per se
      • Configuring DIET's compilation: cmake quick introduction
      • A ccmake walk-through for the impatients
      • DIET's main configuration flags
      • DIET's extensions configuration flags
      • DIET's advanced configuration flags
      • Compiling and installing
    • Diet client/server examples
      • Compiling the examples
  • DIET data
    • Data types
      • Base types
      • Composite types
      • Persistence mode
    • Data description
    • Data management
      • Data identifier
      • Data file
    • Manipulating DIET structures
      • Set functions
      • Access functions
    • Data Management functions
      • Free functions
    • Problem description
    • Examples
      • Example 1: without persistency
      • Example 2: using persistency
  • Building a client program
    • Structure of a client program
    • Client API
    • Examples
      • Synchronous call
      • Asynchronous call
    • Compilation
      • Compilation using cmake
  • Building a server application
    • Structure of the program
    • Server API
    • Example
    • Compilation
  • Batch and parallel submissions
    • Introduction
    • Terminology
    • Configuration for compilation
    • Parallel systems
    • Batch system
    • Client extended API
    • Batch server extended API and configuration file
    • Server API
      • Registering the service
      • Server configuration file
      • Server API for writing services
      • Example of the client/server 'concatenation' problem
  • EC2 Cloud submissions
    • Introduction
    • Compatibility and requirements
    • Configuration for compilation
    • Server configuration file
    • Registering the service
    • Service API
    • Example of client/server
  • Deltacloud submissions
    • Introduction
    • Compatibility and requirements
    • Configuration for compilation
    • Server configuration file
    • Registering the service
    • Service API
    • Example of client/server
  • Scheduling in DIET
    • Introduction
    • Default Scheduling Strategy
    • Plugin Scheduler Interface
      • Estimation Metric Vector
      • Standard Estimation Tags
      • Developer-defined Estimation tags
      • Estimation Vector API
      • Estimation Function
      • Aggregation Methods
    • Example
    • Scheduler at agents level
      • Scheduling from the agents side.
      • Aggregation methods overloading
      • The UserScheduler class
      • Easy definition of a new scheduler class
      • Creation and usage of a scheduler module
      • SeD plugin schedulers and agent schedulers interactions
      • A complete example of scheduler
    • Future Work
  • Performance prediction
    • Introduction
      • Example with convertors
    • CoRI: Collectors of Ressource Information
      • Functions and tags
      • CoRI-Easy
      • CoRI batch
    • Future Work
  • Deploying a DIET platform
    • Deployment basics
      • Using CORBA
      • DIET configuration file
      • Example
    • GODIET
    • Shape of the hierarchy
  • DIET dashboard
    • LogService
    • VizDIET
  • Multi-MA extension
    • Function of the Multi-MA extension
    • Deployment example
    • Search examples
  • Security extension
    • Preparing the files
      • Defining an authority
    • Setting the configuration files
  • Workflow management in DIET
    • Overview
    • Quick start
    • Software architecture
    • Workflow description languages
      • MA language
      • Gwendia language
    • Client API
      • Structure of a client program
      • The simplest example
    • Scheduling
      • Available schedulers
      • SeD requirements for workflow scheduling
  • DAGDA: Data Manager
    • Overview
    • The DAGDA configuration options
    • Cache replacement algorithm
    • The DAGDA API
      • Note on the memory management
      • Synchronous data transfers
      • Asynchronous data transfers
      • Data checkpointing with DAGDA
      • Create data ID aliases
      • Data replication
    • On the correct usage of DAGDA
    • Future works
  • Dynamic management
    • Dynamically modifying the hierarchy
      • Motivations
      • “And thus it began to evolve”
      • Example
    • Changing offered services
      • Presentation
      • Example
      • Going further
  • DIET forwarders
    • Easy CORBA objects connections through ssh
    • The DIETForwarder executable
      • Command line options
      • Configuration files
    • Configuration examples
      • Simple configuration
      • Complex network topology
  • Appendix
    • Configuration files
  • Bibliography