Identity management and federation is becoming an ever present problem in large multi-institutional environments. By their nature, Grids span multiple institutional administration...
Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Shannon Hastings, F...
This article introduces the Interactive Network concept and describes the design and implementation of the first prototype. In an Interactive Network humans become an integral par...
Rudolf J. Strijkers, Laurence Muller, Mihai Criste...
Data replication is a key issue in a Data Grid and can be managed in different ways and at different levels of granularity: for example, at the file level or object level. In the ...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
In this paper, we describe the design of a highlyavailable Grid data storage system. Increased availability is ensured by data redundancy and file striping. Redundant data is com...