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Chapter
Social Grid Agents
Social grid agents are a socially inspired solution designed to address the problem of resource allocation in grid computing, they offer a viable solution to alleviating some of the problems associated with in...
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Article
The Back-End of a Two-Layer Model for a Federated National Datastore for Academic Research VOs that Integrates EGEE Data Management
This paper proposes an architecture for the back-end of a federated national datastore for use by academic research communities, developed by the e-INIS (Irish National e-InfraStructure) project, and describes...
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Chapter
An Introduction to Grid Computing Using EGEE
Grid is an evolving and maturing architecture based on several well-established services, including amongst others, distributed computing, role and group management, distributed data management and Public Key ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Xen with the Quattor Fabric Management System
While the deployment of virtual machines (VMs) within the high-performance computing (HPC) community is proceeding at a great pace, tools for system management of VMs are still lagging behind those available f...
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Article
Genetic structure of hybrid mussel populations in the west of Ireland: two hypotheses revisited
In Ireland, mussels on exposed rocky shores constitute an interbreeding mixture of two forms of mussels, the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, and the Mediterranean mussel, M. galloprovincialis. Results from an Irish ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agent-Based Societies for the Sharing, Brokerage and Allocation of Grid Resources
One of the definitions of economy as ”the administration of the concerns and resources of any community or establishment with a view to orderly conduct and productiveness”[2] appears almost identical to the defin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Transparent Grid Filesystem
Existing data management solutions fail to adequately support data management needs at the inter-grid (interoperability) level. We describe a possible solution, a transparent grid filesystem, and consider in d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Virtual Worker Nodes in a Production Grid
There is a growing body of opinion that virtual machines (VMs) provide a good environment for executing user jobs on Grid compute nodes. Sites which execute jobs in specially-created virtual machines can provi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Heterogeneity of Computing Nodes for Grid Computing
A heterogeneous implementation of the current LCG2/EGEE grid computing software is supported in the Grid-Ireland infrastructure. The porting and testing of the current softwareversionofLCG2iswellunder way on R...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deployment of Grid Gateways Using Virtual Machines
Grid-Ireland, the national computational grid for Ireland, has a centrally managed core infrastructure: the installation and configuration of grid gateways at constituent sites are controlled from an Operation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Principles of Transactional Grid Deployment
This paper examines the availability of grid infrastructures, describes the principles of transactional grid deployment, outlines the design and implementation of a transactional deployment system for the Grid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Grid-wide Intrusion Detection System
We describe SANTA-G (Grid-enabled System Area Networks Trace Analysis), an instrument monitoring framework that uses the R-GMA (Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture). We describe the CanonicalProducer, the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Grid-Ireland Deployment Architecture
Grid-Ireland is unusual in its integrated infrastructure, and the stress that is laid on homogeneity of its core. The major benefit is the decoupling of site details from the core infrastructure, and the resul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Heterogeneous Grid Computing: Issues and Early Benchmarks
A heterogeneous implementation of the current LCG2/EGEE grid computing software is supported in the Grid-Ireland infrastructure. The porting and testing of the current software version of LCG2 is presented for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fault Tolerance in the R-GMA Information and Monitoring System
R-GMA (Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture) [1] is a grid monitoring and information system that provides a global view of data distributed across a grid system. R-GMA creates the impression of a single ce...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
R-GMA: An Information Integration System for Grid Monitoring
Computational Grids are distributed systems that provide access to computational resources in a transparent fashion. Collecting and providing information about the status of the Grid itself is called Grid moni...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stable disk — A fault-tolerant cached RAID subsystem
Lack of I/O performance is becoming a limiting factor in many computing systems. The Stable Disk is a high performance fault-tolerant cached RAID subsystem which exploits write-cacheing. A memory-mapped stable...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stable memory — another look
We present a novel technique for implementing stable memory, which uses readily available hardware, is efficient and reasonably cheap. We consider its exploitation in several application scenarios, and in part...
