See Rich Client Platform.
Siege has been in beta for about 18 months; it has been undergoing testing in connection with the LEAD project, and in particular, was used by 70 participants at the 2006 Unidata Workshop; see further the report delivered to the American Meteorological Society.
Download the latest version (available for Linux x86, MacOS ppc, MacOS x86, and Win32).
This client is intended to serve as a general-purpose work environment for application scientists wanting to run distributed workflows on production resources (such as on the Teragrid).
The choice of the Eclipse platform is a natural one, inasmuch as integration with other special tools (for instance, the Parallel Tools Platform or the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform) is greatly facilitated by the common framework. It also provides a readily available, standardized way for extending the user environment with customized views for specific scientific applications.
Siege
(or the Eclipse
icon) from the siege directory.The current releases include the following views and perspectives: