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We describe a simple, yet powerful API for accessing and using Grid resources from within Jylab, a novel, extensible scientific computing workbench consisting of a suite of open-source Java libraries scriptable through a Jython interpreter. The API provides a Java-based, Python-scriptable interactive environment and aims to simplify Grid application development and use. We demonstrate the utilization of the API in the context of an application from Internet algorithmics, specifically creating an index of crawled Web pages and using it for link-based ranking calculations (PageRank) and search queries.
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Georgiou, K., Kollias, G., Gallopoulos, E. (2008). Grid-Enabling a Problem Solving Environment: Implementation and Everyday Use. In: Making Grids Work. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78448-9_10
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