- The Middleware for Activating the Global Open Grid
(MAGOG) provides a novel solution to the problem
of discovering remote resources in a globally interconnected
environment such as the Internet, in situations
where users want to gain access to such resources to
carry out remote computation. While existing Grid
middleware enables the building of Grid infrastructures
within closed environments where all users are
known to each other, or where there is some preexisting
relationship between resource providers and
users, the true Grid model should enable any users
at any location to access remote resources without
any prior relationship with the provider. MAGOG
is a peer-to-peer based architecture that provides the
means to enable discovery of resources in such an environment
and to enable the agreement of pricing and
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the use of these
resources. This paper provides a high-level overview
of the design of MAGOG and early simulation work
that has been carried out to verify this design. It then
focuses on the initial design for the middleware client
that players in the market will need to deploy in order
to become a node in the environment.
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