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Using clouds to address grid limitations

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Giacomo V. Mc Evoy,

Bruno SchulzeAuthors Info & Claims

MGC '08: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1462704.1462715

Published: 01 December 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This article is a review of the importance of identifying the conceptual components participating in the design of Grid infrastructure, the interfaces presented to other elements and the semantics involved. We will show that the middleware layer still exposes too much detail of the underlying implementation, thus making the application development more complex, difficulting interoperability and scaling. We also discuss Cloud Computing, an emerging technology that has been so far successful in the IT market, also show how Grids and Clouds are related, and to what extent these technologies may provide features that will help accomplish the Grid vision for e-Science applications.

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Using clouds to address grid limitations
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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MGC '08: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing

December 2008

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ISBN:9781605583655

DOI:10.1145/1462704

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