Component specification in the Cactus Framework: The Cactus Configuration Language

2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing Pub Date : 2010-09-07 DOI:10.1109/GRID.2010.5698008

Gabrielle Allen, T. Goodale, F. Löffler, D. Rideout, E. Schnetter, Eric L. Seidel

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Component frameworks are complex systems that rely on many layers of abstraction to function properly. One essential requirement is a consistent means of describing each individual component and how it relates to both other components and the whole framework. As component frameworks are designed to be flexible by nature, the description method should be simultaneously powerful, lead to efficient code, and be easy to use, so that new users can quickly adapt their own code to work with the framework. In this paper, we discuss the Cactus Configuration Language (CCL) which is used to describe components (“thorns”) in the Cactus Framework. The CCL provides a description language for the variables, parameters, functions, scheduling and compilation of a component and includes concepts such as interface and implementation which allow thorns providing the same capabilities to be easily interchanged. We include several application examples which illustrate how community toolkits use the CCL and Cactus and identify needed additions to the language.

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Cactus框架中的组件规范:Cactus配置语言

组件框架是依赖于许多抽象层才能正常工作的复杂系统。一个基本要求是用一致的方法来描述每个单独的组件，以及它与其他组件和整个框架的关系。由于组件框架的设计本质上是灵活的，因此描述方法应该同时功能强大，生成高效的代码，并且易于使用，以便新用户可以快速调整自己的代码以使用框架。在本文中，我们讨论了Cactus配置语言(CCL)，它用于描述Cactus框架中的组件(“刺”)。CCL为组件的变量、参数、函数、调度和编译提供了一种描述语言，并包括接口和实现等概念，这些概念允许提供相同功能的组件易于交换。我们提供了几个应用程序示例，说明社区工具包如何使用CCL和Cactus，并确定该语言需要添加的内容。

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