HAND: Highly Available Dynamic Deployment Infrastructure for Globus Toolkit 4

—Grid computing is becoming more and more attractive for coordinating large-scale heterogeneous resource sharing and problem solving. Of particular interest for effective Grid computing is a software provisioning mechanism. We propose a highly available dynamic deployment infrastructure, HAND, based on the Java Web Services Core of Globus Toolkit 4. HAND provides capability, availability, and extensibility for dynamic deployment of Java Web Services in dynamic Grid environments. We identify the factors that can impact dynamic deployment in static and dynamic environments. We also present the design, analysis, implementation, and evaluation two different approaches to dynamic deployment (service level and container level). And examine the performance of alternative data transfer protocol for service implementations. Our results demonstrate that HAND can deliver significantly improved availability and performance relative to other approaches.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: PDP
• Authors: Li Qi, Hai Jin, Ian T. Foster, Jarek Gawor
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Dynamic Deployment, Dynamic Deployment Infrastructure, Java Web Services, PDP 2007