Application Deployment on Catallactic Grid Middleware

An architecture for the integration of Grid applications with a Catallactic middleware is described, along with an analysis of issues associated with this integration in a real world deployment scenario. This approach makes use of the economic concept of "Catallaxy", which understands a market as a decentralised and self-organizing coordination mechanism, as opposed to a centralised command economy. A prototype is described which consists of an existing Grid application making use of a distributed query service. The Catallactic middleware has been implemented using Globus Toolkit 4, Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) and WS-Agreement. The evaluation of this prototype shows the feasibility of offering existing Grid applications in a computational market, and demonstrates how the middleware based on market mechanisms can in effect be used to balance query request workload across multiple Grid services. Category and Subject Descriptors: C.2.4 [Computer Systems Organization]...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: DSONLINE
• Authors: Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz
• Keywords: Catallactic Middleware, DSONLINE 2006, Grid Applications, Web Services Resource Framework