Software Services

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Definition of Software Services

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 creating 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 Software Services

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 Augsburg, Germany.
• John Darlington, Imperial College London, UK

 

Software-Services-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

• 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 Project

• GT4, http://www.globus.org/

 Asian Grid Project

• CNGrid, http://www.cngrid.org/cngrid-old-site/en_index.htm (China)

 Australian Grid Project

• GridBus, http://www.gridbus.org/

 

Conferences that Address Grid Economics

There are some Grid-related conferences :

• 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 

 

Literature

• "The Open Grid Services Architecture, Version 1.0" (OGSA), Global Grid Forum, 2005
• Elmroth, E., Gardfjäll, P., Mulmo, O., Sandgren, Å., & Sandholm, T. (2003). "A Coordinated Accounting Solution for SweGrid". Draft 0.1, 3.
• Wesner, S., Jaehnert, J. M., & Escudero, M. A. T. (2006). "Mobile collaborative business grids-a short overview of the Akogrimo project", white paper, Akogrimo Consortium.
• Wesner, S. (ed), Jähnert, J. (ed.), et. al., 2005. Overall Architecture Definition and Layer Integration. 
• Tierney, B., Aydt, R., Gunter, D., Smith, W., Swany, M., Taylor, V., & Wolski, R. (2002). "A grid monitoring architecture".
• Barmouta, A., & Buyya, R. (2003, April). "Gridbank: A grid accounting services architecture (gasa) for distributed systems sharing and integration". In Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. International (pp. 8-pp). IEEE. 
• EGEE Middleware Architecture, 2005.
• gLite 3 User Guide, 2006. 
• Morariu, C., Waldburger, M., & Stiller, B. (2006). "An accounting and charging architecture for mobile Grids". Universität Zürich. Institut für Informatik.
• "DataGrid Accounting System (DGAS): Home Location Register", EGEE Users` Guide, 2005
• "DataGrid Accounting System (DGAS): Price Authority", EGEE Users` Guide, 2005
• "DataGrid Accounting System (DGAS): GIANDUIA", EGEE Users` Guide, 2005 
• Surridge, M., Taylor, S., De Roure, D., & Zaluska, E. (2005, December). "Experiences with GRIA". In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing.

 

Tools

• Sundaram, B. 2005, "Introducing GT4 security", IBM DeveloperWorks