Distributed Software Development Tools for Distributed Scientific Applications

This chapter provides a new methodology and two tools for user‐driven Wikinomics‐oriented scientific applications’ development. Service‐oriented architecture for such applications is used, where the entire research supporting computing or simulating process is broken down into a set of loosely coupled stages in the form of interoperating replaceable Web services that can be distributed over different clouds. Any piece of the code and any application component deployed on a system can be reused and transformed into a service. The combination of service‐oriented and cloud computing will indeed begin to challenge the way of research supporting computing development, the facilities of which are considered in this chapter

The grid and cloud computing facilities in Lithuania

Special issue : Selected Papers From the 2nd Workshop on Software ServicesNowadays ICT are faced the paradigm shift to the cloud computing. Even already distributed environments such as grids are challenged to change in order to meet new paradigm. This paper presents Lithuanian grid computing achievements, including National grid initiative (LitGrid), and our cloud computing potential. As an example two particular cloud-related applications are presentedTaikomosios informatikos katedraVilniaus universitetasVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠiaulių universiteta