Grid Economics
Definition of Grid Economics
Grid Economics comprises the analysis of Internet systems from a economic perspective as well as the application of economic principles to the area of Utility computing, Grid Computing, Clouds, software services, and data services, with the goal of improving market behavior, economically efficient resource allocations, and crating successful business models for the Internet. The topics that are addressed are:
- Cloud business model analysis
- Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Pricing
- Capacity Planning
- Market analysis
- Economic modeling
People in Grid Economics
This is a (not comprehensive) list of people that are working on Grid Economics. You will find more information about Grid economics on their Web sites:
- Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, US.
- Daniel Veit , University of Mannheim Business School,Germany.
- Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University, South-Korea
- Rajkumar Buuya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Dirk Neumann, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Gabriele von Voigt, RRZN, University of Hannover, Germany,
- Simon See, Sun Microsystems Research, Singapore.
- Costas Courcoubetis, Athens School of Economics, Greece
- John Darlington, Imperial College London, UK
- Chris Kenyan
Grid Economics - Related Projects
These projects address the topic of Grid Economics. However, the effort ranges from being their main scheme to just addressing an aspect of Grid Economics within their reports: European Grid Projects
- BEinGRID, http://www.beingrid.eu/
- Gridbus, http://www.gridbus.org/
- SORMA, http://www.sorma-project.org/
- SGAS, http://www.sgas.se/ (Swedish)
- UNICORE, http://www.fz-juelich.de/zam/grid/unicore
- CoreGRID, http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/
- DataMiningGrid, http://www.datamininggrid.org/
- OntoGrid, http://www.ontogrid.net/ontogrid/home.jsp
- GRIA, http://www.gria.org/
American Grid Projects
Asian Grid Projects
- CNGrid, http://www.cngrid.org/cngrid-old-site/en_index.htm (China)
Australian Grid Project
- GridBus, http://www.gridbus.org/
Conferences that Addressing Grid Economics
- GECON - Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
- ICSOC - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
- P2P - International Conference on Peer to Peer computing
- CCGrid – IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
- HPDC – IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing
- ICDCS - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
- IPCCC - International Performance Computing and Communications Conference
- HPCC - International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
- SCC- IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
- AINA - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
- PDPTA - International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Technique
- HPCNCS - International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking
These are links to Web sites with more (up-to-date) information about Grid Events listed at other sites:
- EU - Grid Technologies
- IEEE Grid Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Distributed Systems Online (DSO)
- IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC)