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In this paper a model of grid computation that supports both heterogeneity and dynamicity is presented. The model presupposes that user sites contain software components awaiting execution on the grid. User sites and grid sites interact by means of managers which control dynamic behaviour. The orchestration language ORC [9,10] offers an abstract means of specifying operations for resource acquisition and execution monitoring while allowing for the possibility of non-responsive hardware. It is demonstrated that ORC is sufficiently expressive to model typical kinds of grid interactions.
This research is carried out under the FP Network of Excellence CoreGRID funded by the European Commission (Contract IST-2002-004265). A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the CoreGRID workshop Integrated Research in Grid Computing held at Pisa, 28-30 November, 2005. J. Gabarró is also partially supported by FET proactive Integrated project 15964 (AEOLUS) and by Spanish project TIN2005-09198-C02-02 (ASCE).
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Stewart, A., Gabarró, J., Clint, M., Harmer, T., Kilpatrick, P., Perrott, R. (2006). Managing Grid Computations: An ORC-Based Approach. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T., Di Martino, B., Zima, H.P., Dongarra, J., Tang, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11946441_29
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