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Putting this together, Figure B-7 illustrates the different components in the design
for this organization. The grid portal interacts with the Community Scheduler
Framework to submit, manage, and retrieve job information. The CSF interacts
with MMJFS within Globus Toolkit to query the clusters in the grid infrastructure
for the load information. The users can also build a workflow of a set of chained
jobs to be executed via grid port, using a job sequencer.
Figure B-7 Overall architecture diagram
User experience
By placing the clusters under the management of a grid portal, it is imperative
that the user ...