InterGrid: a case for internetworking islands of Grids

: Over the last few years, several nations around the world have set up Grids to share resources such as computers, data, and instruments to enable collaborative science, engineering, and business applications. These Grids follow a restricted organisational model wherein a Virtual Organisation (VO) is created for a specific collaboration and all interactions such as resource sharing are limited to within the VO. Therefore, dispersed Grid initiatives have led to the creation of disparate Grids with little or no interaction between them. In this paper, we propose a model that: (a) promotes interlinking of islands of Grids through peering arrangements to enable inter-Grid resource sharing; (b) provides a scalable structure for Grids that allow them to interconnect with one another and grow in a sustainable way; (c) creates a global Cyberinfrastructure to support e-Science and eBusiness applications. This work identifies and proposes architecture, mechanisms and policies that allow the int...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CONCURRENCY
• Authors: Marcos Dias de Assunção, Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal
• Keywords: CONCURRENCY 2008, Disparate Grids, Grids, Resource