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Resource discovery and management in computational GRID environments
Author(s) -
Bradley Alan,
Curran Kevin,
Parr Gerard
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.758
Subject(s) - metacomputing , computer science , grid , resource (disambiguation) , grid computing , directory service , computational resource , quality of service , distributed computing , semantic grid , resource allocation , service (business) , directory , computational complexity theory , world wide web , computer network , operating system , semantic web , geometry , mathematics , economy , algorithm , economics
Corporations are currently using computational GRIDs to improve their operations. Future GRIDs will allow an organization to take advantage of computational GRIDs without having to develop a custom in‐house solution. GRID resource providers (GRPs) make resources available on the GRID so that others may subscribe and use these resources. GRPs will allow companies to make use of a range of resources such as processing power or mass storage. However, simply providing resources is not enough to ensure the success of a computational GRID: Access to these resources must be controlled otherwise computational GRIDs will simply evolve to become a victim of their own success, unable to offer a suitable quality of service (QoS) to any user. The task of providing a standard querying mechanism for computational GRID environments (CGE) has already witnessed considerable work from groups such as the Globus project who have delivered the Metacomputing Directory Service (MDS), which provides a means to query devices attached to the GRID. This paper presents a review of existing resource discovery mechanisms within CGE. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.