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GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Streamlining Grid Operations: Definition and Deployment of a Portal-based User Registration Service
Manual management of public key credentials can be a significant and often off-putting obstacle to Grid use, particularly for casual users. We describe the Portal-based User Regis...
Ian T. Foster, Veronika Nefedova, Mehran Ahsant, R...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Metascheduling Multiple Resource Types using the MMKP
Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Overhead Analysis of Grid Workflow Applications
In this paper we propose a systematic approach to performance analysis of workflow applications on the Grid. We introduce an ideal model for the workflow execution time and explain...
Francesco Nerieri, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer, ...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Multi-Replication with Intelligent Staging in Data-Intensive Grid Applications
Existing data grid scheduling systems handle huge data I/O via replica location services coupled with simple staging, decoupled from scheduling of computing tasks. However, when th...
Yuya Machida, Shin'ichiro Takizawa, Hidemoto Nakad...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Measuring the Performance and Reliability of Production Computational Grids
In this work we report on data gathered via a deployment of a monitoring and benchmarking infrastructure on two production grid platforms, TeraGrid and Geon. Our result show that t...
Omid Khalili, Jiahua He, Catherine Olschanowsky, A...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
How are Real Grids Used? The Analysis of Four Grid Traces and Its Implications
The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
The Palantir Grid Meta-Information System
Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break dow...
Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corba...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Performance models for hierarchical grid architectures
Main characteristics of large
Paolo Cremonesi, Roberto Turrin
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Grid Deployment of Legacy Bioinformatics Applications with Transparent Data Access
Although grid computing offers great potential for executing large-scale bioinformatics applications, practical deployment is constrained by legacy interfaces. Most widely deployed...
Christophe Blanchet, Rémi Mollon, Douglas T...
GRID
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Shibboleth-based Access to and Usage of Grid Resources
Security underpins Grids and e-Research. Without a robust, reliable and simple Grid security infrastructure combined with commonly accepted security practices, large portions of th...
Richard O. Sinnott, Jipu Jiang, J. P. Watt, Oluwaf...