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Making Grids Work

Proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop on Programming Models Grid and P2P System Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments 12-13 June 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  • Covers all aspects of Grid Computing, mainly focusing on Peer-to-Peer Techniques for Grids
  • CoreGRID brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers from forty-two institutions active in the fields of distributed systems and middleware, programming models, algorithms, tools and environments
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Component Programming Models

    1. Behavioural Skeletons for Component Autonomic Management on Grids

      • Marco Aldinucci, Sonia Campa, Marco Danelutto, Patrizio Dazzi, Domenico Laforenza, Nicola Tonellotto et al.
      Pages 3-15
    2. Towards gcm re-configuration - extending specification by norms

      • Alessandro Basso, Alexander Bolotov
      Pages 17-29
    3. A Flexible Model and Implementation of Component Controllers

      • Francoise Baude, Denis Caromel, Ludovic Henrio, Paul Naoumenko
      Pages 31-43
    4. Analysis of Component Model Extensions to Support the GriCoL Language

      • Hinde Bouziane, Natalia Currle-Linde, Christian Perez, Michael Resch
      Pages 45-55
  3. Resource Discovery and Scheduling

    1. Peer-to-Peer Approaches to Grid Resource Discovery

      • Ann Chervenak, Shishir Bharathi
      Pages 59-76
    2. GRID superscalar and job mapping on the reliable grid resources

      • Ani Anciaux–Sedrakian, Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Josep M. Pérez, Thilo Kielmann, Andre Merzky
      Pages 77-88
    3. Design and Implementation of a Hybrid P2P-based Grid Resource Discovery System

      • Harris Papadakis, Paolo Trunfio, Domenico Talia, Paraskevi Fragopoulou
      Pages 89-101
    4. Backfilling Strategies for Scheduling Streams of Jobs On Computational Farms

      • R. Baraglia, G. Capannini, M. Pasquali, D. Puppin, L. Ricci, A. D. Techiouba
      Pages 103-115
  4. Development and Runtime Environments

    1. Design and Implementation of a Hybrid P2P-based Grid Resource Discovery System

      • Artie Basukoski, Vladimir Getov, Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam, Stavros Isaiadis
      Pages 119-128
    2. Grid-Enabling a Problem Solving Environment: Implementation and Everyday Use

      • Konstantinos Georgiou, Giorgos Kollias, Efstratios Gallopoulos
      Pages 129-138
    3. A Component-Based Integrated Toolkit

      • Enric Tejedor, Rosa M. Badia, Thilo Kielmann, Vladimir Getov
      Pages 139-151
    4. The Role of Overlay Services In a Self-Managing Framework for Dynamic Virtual Organizations

      • Per Brand, Joel Hoglund, Konstantin Popov, Noel de Palma, Fabienne Boyer, Nikos Parlavantzas et al.
      Pages 153-164
    5. Carrying the Crash-Only Software Concept to the Legacy Application Servers

      • Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Luis Silva
      Pages 165-174
    6. Bounded Site Failures: An Approach to Unreliable Grid Environments

      • Joaquim Gabarro, Alina Garcia, Maurice Clint, Peter Kilpatrick, Alan Stewart
      Pages 175-187
  5. Workflow Programming

    1. Programming E-Science Gateways

      • Dennis Gannon
      Pages 191-200
    2. Re-Evaluating The Grid: The Social Life of Programs

      • David De Roure, Carole Goble
      Pages 201-211
    3. Workflows on Top of a Macro Data Flow Interpreter Exploiting Aspects

      • Marco Danelutto, Patrizio Dazzi
      Pages 213-224
    4. Utilizing Heterogeneous Data Sources in Computational Grid Workflows

      • Tamas Kiss, Alexandru Tudose, Gabor Terstyanszky, Peter Kacsuk, Gergely Sipos
      Pages 225-236
  6. Checkpointing and Monitoring

    1. Result Error Detection on Heterogeneous and Volatile Resources Via Intermediate Checkpointing

      • Kondo Derrick, Araujo Filipe, Luis Silva, Patricio Domingues
      Pages 239-246

About this book

Making Grids Work includes selected articles from the CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Programming Models, Grid and P2P Systems Architecture, Grid Systems, Tools and Environments held at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas in Crete, Greece, June 2007. This workshop brought together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe. Organized within the context of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, this workshop provided a forum for the presentation and exchange of views on the latest developments in Grid Technology research. This volume is the 7th in the series of CoreGRID books.

Making Grids Work is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Marco Danelutto

  • Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Computer Science, Crete, Greece

    Paraskevi Fragopoulou

  • Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece

    Paraskevi Fragopoulou

  • University of Westminster, London, UK

    Vladimir Getov

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