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MyGrid 0.2 - first grid powered by Mono (linux) and .NET

After the weeks in development, MyGrid proudly presents the first version that works on Mono (linux and Windows) and Microsoft .NET platforms. MyGrid is a distributed grid, which allows process distribution across multiple platforms and technologies. On linux you can use MonoDevelop or Visual Studio on Windows to work with the source.

MyGrid v0.1.6 has been released! This version includes a very much improved scheduler with proper weighted directed acyclic graph jobs sequencer. Also threading model is now improved in Cluster.

This version includes new grid middleware (gateways) feature to MyGrid. With this feature MyGrid becomes a grid-of-grids, allowing to distribute jobs to external grid systems, such as DataSynapse, Globus etc. Competition? Check with commercial grids :-) most of them lack this very important feature. On the other hand this allows you to use MyGrid in your company, even if it presses for commercial grid systems.

MyGrid adds a powerful middleware layer, called gateways, non-existent in most commercal grids. Gateways allow MyGrid to distribute jobs to other grids: Globus, DataSynapse, OSGA etc. This feature is now in CVS.

A new feature has been added to MyGrid and will appear in v0.1.5: distribute jobs to other grids, such as DataSynapse, Globus, Oracle10g etc. The new concept in MyGrid is called "gateways". There's a DataSynapse Gateway that allows you to use advanced features of MyGrid that DataSynapse lacks (such as solving job depencencies).

Version 0.1.4 adds many structure enhancements to the project. Java 'foundry' of MyGrid now contains 3 projects: visualizer, engine and shell job processor. More to come! Visualizer allows you to navigate dependencies of jobs via a java component right from the Web site.

MyGrid can now distribute processes to any Java device, thanks to the new Java Engine and Java shell job processor. You can run tasks on linux, or windows, any platform can now host a MyGrid engine.

I created a new module in CVS: MyGrid.Core. Please, use this module instead of MyGrid from now on!!! This module now includes a dramatically(*) redesigned core of MyGrid, which now allows a transparent Web Services and/or Remoting communications from Engine to Cluster. Features:

- Completely trashed ADO.NET overhead. Use XmlSerializer instead. You can now de/serialize Feeders, Feeder, Jobs and Job with xml serializer. Should help a lot Mono migration. ... read more

MyGrid distributed grid now has a Web frontend for grid management, monitoring and deployment and job creation. The initial release may be hosted in lightweight embedded Cassini C# Web server, IIS, and will be hosted in Mono XSP (linux), Apache (mod_mono) and Apache (w/Cassini).

Added: on-the-fly processors detection by the Engine. Logger class isolates log4net from other assembies. Minor bug fixes in the Engine which prevented incorrect keys creation for the engines. Modified win32 installers.

MyGrid's source is fully available from CVS. I'll release a source package for v0.1 tonight, for those who's behind the firewalls and need access to the source w/o using anonymous CVS login.

MyGrid 0.1 has been released at http://mygrid.sf.net. MyGrid to grid computing is what MySQL is to proprietory databases: open and easy to use. MyGrid will support all modern platforms: .NET, Java and linux. This release includes a completely functional installers for Cluster, Engine, GUI client and documentation.

I'm working hard on releasing version 0.1 of MyGrid. This verion will include cluster, engine, job metadata feeders, and a shell job processor. Plus, MyGrid includes installers for Cluster and Engine on win32 platforms. LINUX and JAVA versions are scheduled to follow as follows: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1009435&forum_id=345660.

MyGrid 0.1 - .NET 1.1 implementation
MyGrid 0.2 - Mono (debian linux) Engine + Mono Linux Job Processor (shell).
MyGrid 0.3 - Java Engine