We present our approach for deploying and managing distributed component-based applications. A Desired State Description (DSD), written in a high-level declarative language, specifies requirements for a distributed application. Our infrastructure accepts a DSD as input, and from it automatically configures and deploys the distributed application. Subsequent violations of the original requirements are detected and, where possible, automatically rectified by reconfiguration and redeployment of the necessary application components. A constraint solving tool is used to plan deployments that meet the application requirements.
@cite_11: Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of computing resources to solve large-scale tasks such as scientific computation. These tasks are defined as standalone components that can be combined to process the data in various ways. We have implemented a planning system to generate task workflows for the Grid automatically, allowing the user to specify the desired data products in simple terms. The planner uses heuristic control rules and searches a number of alternative complete plans in order to find a high-quality solution. We describe an implemented test case in gravitational wave interferometry and show how the planner is integrated in the Grid environment. We discuss promising future directions of this work. We believe AI planning will play a crucial role in developing complex application workflows for the Grid.
@cite_11 exploits a planner to generate workflows for Grid applications. The planner searches alternative deployment plans using heuristics to attempt to find high quality deployment solutions.