Global Grid Forum: Grid Computing Environments Community Practice (CP) Document Project Title: Nimrod/G Problem Solving Environment and Computational Economies
Abstract:
The accelerated development in Grid and peer-to-peer computing systems has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the coordinated or regulated use of geographically distributed resources owned by autonomous organizations (i.e., service providers). The Grid-enabled Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) provide a secure and transparent mechanism for application composition, configuration, expression of user preferences and requirements, and automated resource recovery, scheduling, resource reservation to meet QoS requirement, management of program execution on (remote) resources including staging data and program and gathering results, online access to data sources, along with steering and status management. They leverage services provided by middleware systems for information for resource discovery, trading, advance resource reservation, secure process management, storage access, accounting, and payment management. Nimrod/G is one of the popular Grid-enabled problem solving environments, which is built by leveraging services provided by middleware systems such as Globus, Legion, GRACE, and so on [3][4]. Nimrod/G is a tool for automated modeling and execution of parameter sweep applications (parameter-studies) over global computational Grids. It provides a simple declarative parametric modeling language for expressing parametric experiments. The domain experts can easily create a plan for a parametric computing and use the Nimrod runtime system to submit legacy jobs for execution. It uses economics paradigm for resource management and scheduling on the
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