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An asynchronous middleware for Grid resource monitoring
Author(s) -
Quéma V.,
Lachaize R.,
Cecchet E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.831
Subject(s) - middleware (distributed applications) , computer science , asynchronous communication , distributed computing , scalability , grid computing , flexibility (engineering) , grid , component (thermodynamics) , server , service oriented architecture , operating system , computer network , web service , world wide web , statistics , physics , geometry , mathematics , thermodynamics
Resource management in a Grid computing environment raises several technical issues. The monitoring infrastructure must be scalable, flexible, configurable and adaptable to support thousands of devices in a highly dynamic environment where operational conditions are constantly changing. We propose to address these challenges by combining asynchronous communications with reflective component‐based technologies. We introduce D REAM (Dynamic REflective Asynchronous Middleware), a Java component‐based message oriented middleware. Asynchronous communications are used to achieve the scalability and flexibility objectives, whereas the reflective component technology provides the complementary configurability and adaptability features. We argue that this infrastructure is a viable approach to build a resource monitoring infrastructure for Grid computing. Moreover, D REAM makes the monitoring logic accessible from J2EE application servers. This allows the monitoring information to be presented as a Grid service and to integrate within the Open Grid Software Architecture. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.