Scientists have long relied on abstract models to study phenomena that are too complex for direct observation and experimentation. As new scientific modeling methodologies emerge...
Security is one of the most important features for Grid services. There are several specifications used to add security to Grid services, and some of them have been implemented a...
Satoshi Shirasuna, Aleksander Slominski, Liang Fan...
The SOAP protocol underpins Web services as the standard mechanism for exchanging information in a distributed environment. The XML-based protocol offers advantages including exte...
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Ken...
A major hurdle facing data intensive grid applications is the appropriate handling of failures that occur in the grid-environment. Implementing the fault-tolerance transparently a...
e-Science has much to benefit from the emerging field of grid computing. However, construction of e-Science grids is a complex and inefficient undertaking. In particular, deployme...
— A large and diverse consortium of grid clusters, as can be found in a university setting, requires a flexible authorization model that is scalable, extensible and easy to admi...
Beth A. Kirschner, Thomas J. Hacker, William A. Ad...
We introduce a formal model for deployment and hosting of a dynamic grid service wherein the service provider must pay a resource provider for the use of computational resources. ...
We present DiPerF, a distributed performance-testing framework, aimed at simplifying and automating service performance evaluation. DiPerF coordinates a pool of machines that test...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian...