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Rapid
Rapid development and deployment of job-submission portals
We show a screencast of an example portal created using Rapid, which allows to run a simple emboss filter on images. This demo comes with the Rapid package. To see this demo you require Flash to be installed.
In many e-Science projects, portals are developed to allow an end-user to submit a computationally intensive task. Conventionally, the interface layouts of such portals and the portlets within, together with the job-submission functionality are created from scratch, manually generating, for example, JSR-168, JSDL or condor submit file.
Carl was awarded both the Agilent Prize and the Class Medal for best performance in the BEng Electronics and Computer Science degree
To investigate the use of graphical user interface languages and their generators and use these in conjunction with the Rapid Development Tool for Job Submission Portlets (RAPID), which is being developed at the National e-Science Centre.
We will develop a portlet that allows us to create rapidly and deploy job submissions portlets based on user requirements. The requirements are captured by using the portlet to build a job submission interface. The job submission interface is itself a portlet and can be shown to end-users immediately. More specifically, a designer or software engineer creates a set of parameters with defaults and parameter sweeps. The tool translates this in to a portlet, which the developer is able to deploy dynamically in to the same GridSphere portal.
