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Grid Middleware and Services

Challenges and Solutions

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  1. Domenico Talia

    1. Dip. Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universitá della Calabria, 87036, Italy

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  2. Ramin Yahyapour

    1. IT und Medien Centrum, Dortmund University of Technology, 44221, Germany

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  3. Wolfgang Ziegler

    1. Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, 53754, Germany

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  • Covers all aspects of Grid Computing, including Grid Middleware and Services
  • Brings together contributors world-wide, who are distinguished leaders in research and industry within Grid Computing

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Resource Management and Scheduling

    1. Grid Scheduling with ATOP-Grid under Time Sharing

      • Xijie Zeng, Jiaying Shi, Xiaorong Cao, Angela C. Sodan
      Pages 3-18

    2. Benchmarking Grid Applications

      • Farrukh Nadeem, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer, Alexandru Iosup
      Pages 19-37

    3. Data Model for Describing Grid Resource Broker Capabilities

      • Attila Kertész, Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim
      Pages 39-52

    5. Managing Scheduling and Replication in the LHC Grid

      • Thomas Ferrandiz, Vania Marangozova
      Pages 65-77

    6. Network Monitoring Session Description

      • Augusto Ciuffoletti, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis
      Pages 79-93

    7. Sub-contracts: Delegating Contracts for Resource Discovery

      • Javier Bustos-Jimenez, Cristian Varas, Jose Piquer
      Pages 95-104

    8. Looking for an Evolution of Grid Scheduling: Meta-Brokering

      • Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan, L. L. Fong, Y. G. Liu, S. M. Sadjadi
      Pages 105-119

    9. Preemption and Share Control in Parallel Grid Job Scheduling

      • Bryan Esbaugh, Angela C. Sodan
      Pages 121-135

    10. The Grid Backfilling: a Multi-Site Scheduling Architecture with Data Mining Prediction Techniques

      • Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan, A. Goyeneche
      Pages 137-152

  3. Storage and Data Management

    1. Cache-Enabled Super-Peer Overlays for Multiple Job Submission on Grids

      • Pasquale Cozza, Domenico Talia, Carlo Mastroianni, Ian Kelley, Ian Taylor
      Pages 155-169

    2. An Analysis of Security Services in Grid Storage Systems

      • Jesus Luna, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, Angelos Bilas, Federico Stagni, Alberto Forti et al.
      Pages 171-185

    3. Analysis of Grid Storage Element Architectures: High-end Fiber-Channel vs. Emerging Cluster-based Networked Storage

      • Maciej Brzezniak, Norbert Meyer, Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaiz, Angelos Bilas
      Pages 187-201

    4. Towards Uniform and Transparent Access to the Grid Information Using the Palantir

      • Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan
      Pages 203-217

    5. Peer-to-Peer Metadata Management for Knowledge Discovery Applications in Grids

      • Gabriel Antoniu, Antonio Congiusta, Sébastien Monnet, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio
      Pages 219-233

  4. Grid Workflow and Fault Tolerance

    1. Taxonomies of the Multi-Criteria Grid Workflow Scheduling Problem

      • Marek Wieczorek, Andreas Hoheisel, Radu Prodan
      Pages 237-264

    2. Real-World Workflow Support in the ASKALON Grid Environment

      • Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer, Farrukh Nadeem, Marek Wieczorek
      Pages 265-278

    3. A Practical Approach for a Workflow Management System

      • Simone Pellegrini, Francesco Giacomini, Antonia Ghiselli
      Pages 279-287
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About this book

Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions is the eighth volume of the CoreGRID series. The CoreGrid Proceedings is the premiere European event on Grid Computing. This book aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid Computing. The main focus in this volume is on Grid middleware and service level agreement.

Grid middleware and Grid services are two pillars of grid computing systems and applications. This book includes high-level contributions by leading researchers in both areas and presents current solutions together with future challenges. This volume includes sections on knowledge and data management on grids, Grid resource management and scheduling, Grid information, resource and workflow monitoring services, and service level agreements.

Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions 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.

 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dip. Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universitá della Calabria, 87036, Italy

    Domenico Talia

  • IT und Medien Centrum, Dortmund University of Technology, 44221, Germany

    Ramin Yahyapour

  • Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, 53754, Germany

    Wolfgang Ziegler

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