Using Grid Computing for Distributed Software Testing.

Abstract: Under the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program, within the Plant Modernization research pathway, the Digital I&C Qualification Project is identifying new methods that would be beneficial in qualifying digital I&C systems and devices for safety-related usage. One such method that would be useful in qualifying field components such as sensors and actuators is the concept of testability. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considers testability to be one of two design attributes sufficient to eliminate consideration of software-based or software logic-based common cause failure (th e other being diversity). The NRC defines acceptable “testability” as follows: Testability – A system is sufficiently simple such that every possible combination of inputs and every possible sequence of device states are tested and all outputs are verified for every case (100% tested).

TL;DR: This presentation complements an earlier foundational article, “The Anatomy of the Grid,” by describing how Grid mechanisms can implement a service-oriented architecture, explaining how Grid functionality can be incorporated into a Web services framework, and illustrating how the architecture can be applied within commercial computing as a basis for distributed system integration.

TL;DR: The Globus system is intended to achieve a vertically integrated treatment of application, middleware, and net work, an integrated set of higher level services that enable applications to adapt to heteroge neous and dynamically changing metacomputing environ ments.

TL;DR: A distributed problem solving environment is introduced and its use to search for a solution to the travelling salesman problem is proposed.

TL;DR: The Grid Computing: Features contributions from the major players in the field Covers all aspects of grid technology from motivation to applications provided an extensive state-of-the-art guide in grid computing as mentioned in this paper.