Abstract The Globus Toolkit Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS4) defines and
implements mechanisms for service and resource discovery and monitoring in distributed …

Abstract Information Services are fundamental blocks of the Grid infrastructure. They are
responsible for collecting and distributing information about resource availability and status …

Grid benchmarking is an important and challenging topic of Grid computing research. In this
paper, we present an overview of the key challenges that need to be addressed for the …

Monitoring and information system (MIS) implementations provide data about available
resources and services within a distributed system, or Grid. A comprehensive performance …

The ability to manage metadata is a critical requirement of the grid, but scientists have not
been given the tools needed to catalog experimental data based on complex metadata …

Grid Computing proposes unlimited access to different computational resources in a
transparent way. High performance execution in grid environments is virtually impossible …

The performance of peer-to-peer systems is of great interest to both the scientific community
and to practitioners. Many papers have been published on performance issues for specific …

Grid information systems play a central role in today's production Grid infrastructures,
enabling the discovery of a range of information about the Grid services that exist in an …

This paper presents VegaBench, a benchmark tool, and its methodology of evaluation for
service oriented grid system software. The aim of the VegaBench is to bring forth a set of …

Managing resource information using web services is an important issue in grid computing.
Although some standards for grid computing based on web services have been published …