Agreement-Based Interactions for Experimental Science

Enabling quality of service (QoS) in the Grids requires not only resource management strategies but also the development of protocols enabling structured negotiation for the use of resources. Such protocols will allow the creation of policies dynamically and automatically broadening the scope of Grid applications. In this paper, we describe design, implementation and application of an agreement-based infrastructure. We then discuss its use in the virtual control room developed for the National Fusion Collaboratory.

[1]  William E. Allcock,et al.  Providing data transfer with QoS as agreement-based service , 2004, IEEE International Conference onServices Computing, 2004. (SCC 2004). Proceedings. 2004.

[2]  William E. Allcock,et al.  Reliable file transfer in Grid environments , 2002, 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2002. Proceedings. LCN 2002..

[3]  Scott Klasky,et al.  Grids for experimental science: the virtual control room , 2004, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, 2004. CLADE 2004..

[4]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  The anatomy of the grid: enabling scalable virtual organizations , 2001, Proceedings First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid.

[5]  Asit Dan,et al.  A Service Level Agreement Language for Dynamic Electronic Services , 2003, Electron. Commer. Res..

[6]  ChuHao-hua,et al.  QoS-aware resource management for distributed multimedia applications , 1998 .

[7]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  Grid Services for Distributed System Integration , 2002, Computer.

[8]  Ami Marowka,et al.  What is the GRID? , 2002, Scalable Comput. Pract. Exp..

[9]  B. F. Spencer,et al.  Distributed hybrid earthquake engineering experiments: experiences with a ground-shaking grid application , 2004, Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Symposium on High performance Distributed Computing, 2004..

[10]  Klara Nahrstedt,et al.  A distributed resource management architecture that supports advance reservations and co-allocation , 1999, 1999 Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service. IWQoS'99. (Cat. No.98EX354).

[11]  Frank Leymann,et al.  Modeling Stateful Resources with Web Services , 2004 .

[12]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  Computational Grids in action: the National Fusion Collaboratory , 2002, Future Gener. Comput. Syst..

[13]  Steven Tuecke,et al.  The Physiology of the Grid An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration , 2002 .

[14]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  SNAP: A Protocol for Negotiating Service Level Agreements and Coordinating Resource Management in Distributed Systems , 2002, JSSPP.

[15]  Steven Tuecke,et al.  Grid Service Specification , 2002 .

[16]  L. Lao,et al.  Reconstruction of current profile parameters and plasma shapes in tokamaks , 1985 .

[17]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  A community authorization service for group collaboration , 2002, Proceedings Third International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks.