Grid Middleware and Services

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 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.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Contributing Authors xiii
Resource Management and Scheduling
Grid Scheduling with ATOP-Grid under Time Sharing	p. 3
Benchmarking Grid Applications	p. 19
Data Model for Describing Grid Resource Broker Capabilities	p. 39
Meta-Broker for Future Generation Grids: A New Approach for a High-Level Interoperable Resource Management	p. 53
Managing Scheduling and Replication in the LHC Grid	p. 65
Network Monitoring Session Description	p. 79
Sub-contracts: Delegating Contracts for Resource Discovery	p. 95
Looking for an Evolution of Grid Scheduling: Meta-Brokering	p. 105
Preemption and Share Control in Parallel Grid Job Scheduling	p. 121
The Grid Backfilling: a Multi-Site Scheduling Architecture with Data Mining Prediction Techniques	p. 137
Storage and Data Management
Cache-Enabled Super-Peer Overlays for Multiple Job Submission on Grids	p. 155
An Analysis of Security Services in Grid Storage Systems	p. 171
Analysis of Grid Storage Element Architectures: High-end Fiber-Channel vs. Emerging Cluster-based Networked Storage	p. 187
Towards Uniform and Transparent Access to the Grid Information Using the Palantir	p. 203
Peer-to-Peer Metadata Management for Knowledge Discovery Applications in Grids	p. 219
Grid Workflow and Fault Tolerance
Taxonomies of the Multi-Criteria Grid Workflow Scheduling Problem	p. 237
Real-World Workflow Support in the Askalon Grid Environment	p. 265
A Practical Approach for a Workflow Management System	p. 279
Secure and Fault Tolerant Distributed Framework with Mobility Support	p. 289
Improvement on Fault-Tolerance and Migration Facilities within the Grid Computing Environment - Integration with the Low-Level Checkpointing Packages	p. 305
Towards Automated Diagnosis of Application Faults using Wrapper Services and Machine Learning	p. 319
Service Level Agreement
Using SLA for Resource Management and Scheduling A Survey	p. 335
Managing Violations in Service Level Agreements	p. 349
Operating Virtual Organizations using Bipartite Service Level Agreements	p. 359
Managing User Expectations with Component Performance Contracts	p. 375
Service Level Agreements in Catallaxy-Based Grid Markets	p. 387
Improving Business Opportunities of Financial Service Providers through Service Level Agreements	p. 397
Implementing WS-Agreement in a Globus Toolkit 4.0 Environment	p. 409
Index	p. 419
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