42 Grid Computing in Research and Education
Submit jobs to the system: Actually, this use-case contains several
sub-use-cases that describe the installation and the management of grid
applications and will not be described here at length. In simple terms, the
life-cycle of a grid application is: development, local test, installation on the
grid, execution, and result analysis.
Fetch and analyze results: When an application finishes executing, its results
have to be fetched and analyzed by the researchers. The analysis itself is
generally performed using specific visualization tools, but before that, the
system has to be able to make such results available. This is normally
accomplished by making data files, generated during the applica ...