Welcome

SAGA is an API that provides the basic functionality required to build distributed applications, tools and frameworks so as to be independent of the details of the underlying infrastructure. SAGA can be used to provide simple access layers for distributed systems and abstractions for applications and thereby address the fundamental application design objectives of Interoperability across different infrastructure, Distributed Scale-Out, Extensibility, Adaptivity whilst preserving simplicity.

If you want to learn more about SAGA and how it's being used by scientific applications across numerous Grid infrastructures, watch this short introductory video clip produced for the Supercomputing Conference 2009.   

Implementations

Currently, two native open source implementations and several language bindings for the SAGA API standard (GWD-R.90) are available:

• The C++ implementation developed at the Louisiana State University / CCT
• The Python modules based on the C++ implementation
• The Java implementation developed at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Getting Started

 The easiest way to get started with SAGA is to download the latest stable source release:

Next, you should check out the Quick Start manual in the documentation section. It explains how to build and install the different SAGA implementations and how to write your first distributed Java/Python/C++ application with SAGA.