Venice A Lightweight Service Grid

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Venice A Lightweight Service Grid
Markus Hillenbrand, Joachim Götze and Paul Müller
Markus HillenbrandUniversity of Kaiserslautern,
Germany Integrated Communication Systems
Lab Email hillenbr_at_informatik.uni-kl.de

• Euromicro 2006Cavtat, Aug 29 Sep 1, 2006

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What is a Grid?

• Leonard Kleinrock 1969 the spread of computer
  utilities, which, like present electric and
  telephone utilities, will service individual
  homes and offices across the country.
• Ian Foster and Carl Kesselmann 1998 A
  computational grid is a hardware and software
  infrastructure that provides dependable,
  consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to
  high-end computational capabilities.
• Ian Foster 2002 What is the Grid? A Three Point
  Checklist
• coordinates resources that are not subject to
  centralized control
• using standard, open, general-purpose protocols
  and interfaces
• to deliver nontrivial qualities of service
• Todays categorization
• Computational Grids (high performance computing)
• Data Grids (large data storage and data
  processing)
• Service Grids (a grid of services for end users)

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The Venice Service Grid
Vertical Application Services
Voice over IP Supplementary services
Virtual Office
E-Science

VoIP
H323
SIP
FIM
Print
CfP
Audio
Control
Scan

Video
PPT
CFU
CCBS
CLIP
VM

Venice Services
Management Services
Information Services
Horizontal Application Services
SM
IB
TKS
NOS
PS
LOCS
SSO
SDS
DIS
MAB
WHOIS
SI
SP
PSS
EMail
SMS
Web ServicesTomcat, Axis, WSRF, DBMS and other
tools
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Service Bench