Recerca Contractada
Contract rc_07_upc
Definició d'un mecanisme d'assignació de recursos entre diferents organitzacions virtuals
Of Regional scope.
Grid4All aims to enable domestic users, non-profit organisations such as schools, and small enterprises, to share their resources and to access massive Grid resources when needed, envisioning a future in which access to resources is democratised, readily available, cooperative, and inexpensive. Examples include home users of an image editing application, school projects like volcanic eruption simulations, or small businesses doing data mining. Cooperation examples include joint homework between pupils, and international collaboration such as the edition of a multilingual newsletter between schools from different countries. Grid4All goals entail a system pooling large amounts of cheap resources (connecting to commercial cluster providers when needed); a dynamic system satisfying spikes of demand; using elfmanagement techniques to scale and adapt to changes in environment; supporting isolated, secure, dynamic, geographically distributed user groups and using secure peer-to-peer techniques to federate large numbers of small-scale resources into large-scale Grids. We target small communities such as domestic users, schools and SMEs, thus combining for-profit or non-profit users and providers, harnessing their resources added to those of operated IT centres, to form on-demand service oriented Grids, avoiding preconfigured infrastructures. The technical issues addressed are aspects of security, support for multiple administrative and management authorities, self-management ...
