Future generation grids : proceedings of the Workshop on Future Generation Grids, November 1-5, 2004, Dagstuhl, Germany

The Internet and the Web continue to have a major impact on society. By allowing us to discover and access information on a global scale, they have created entirely new businesses and brought new meaning to the term __surf__. In addition, however, we want processing, and increasingly, we want collaborative processing within distributed teams. This need has led to the creation of the Grid - an infrastructure that enables us to share capabilities, and integrate services and resources within and across enterprises. **Future Generation Grids** is the second in the CoreGRID series. This edited volume brings together contributed articles by scientists and researchers in the Grid community in an attempt to draw a clearer picture of the future generation Grids. This book also identifies some of the most challenging problems on the way to achieving the __invisible__ Grid ideas. **Future Generation Grids** is written for a professional audience. This book is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science. The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) project began in September 2004. Two months later, in November 2004, the first CoreGRID Integra­ tion Workshop was held within the framework of the prestigious international Dagstuhl seminars. CoreGRID aims at strengthening and advancing long-term research, knowledge transfer and integration in the area of Grid and Peer-to- Peer technologies. CoreGRID is a Network of Excellence - a new type of project within the European 6th Framework Programme, to ensure progressive evolution and durable integration of the European Grid research community. To achieve this objective, CoreGRID brings together a critical mass of we- established researchers and doctoral students from forty-two institutions that have constructed an ambitious joint programme of activities. Although excellence is a goal to which CoreGRID is committed, durable integration is our main concern. It means that CoreGRID has to carry out activ­ ities to improve the effectiveness of European research in Grid by coordinating and adapting the participants' activities in Grid research, to share resources such as Grid testbeds, to encourage exchange of research staff and students, and to ensure close collaboration and wide dissemination of its results to the international community. Organising CoreGRID Integration Workshops is one of the activities that aims at identifying and promoting durable collaboration between partners involved in the network. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 From Event-Driven Workflows Towards a Posteriori Computing....Pages 3-28 On Adaptability in Grid Systems....Pages 29-46 Bringing Knowledge to Middleware — Grid Scheduling Ontology....Pages 47-59 Remote Administration and Fault Tolerance in Distributed Computer Infrastructures....Pages 61-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 The Virtual Resource Manager: Local Autonomy Versus QoS Guarantees for Grid Applications....Pages 83-98 Resource Management for Future Generation Grids....Pages 99-112 On Designing and Composing Grid Services for Distributed Data Mining....Pages 113-132 GDS: An Architecture Proposal for a Grid Data-Sharing Service....Pages 133-152 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 A Search Architecture for Grid Software Components....Pages 155-169 Use of a Network-Enabled Server System for a Sparse Linear Algebra Grid Application....Pages 171-193 Co-Allocation in Grids: Experiences and Issues....Pages 195-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Structured Implementation of Component-Based Grid Programming Environments....Pages 217-239 From Grid Middleware to Grid Applications: Bridging the Gap with Hocs....Pages 241-261 HPC Application Execution on Grids....Pages 263-282 Grid Application Programming Environments....Pages 283-306 Back Matter....Pages 307-308