This paper describes the Grid Resource Broker (GRB), a Grid portal built leveraging a set of
high‐level, Globus‐Toolkit‐based Grid libraries called GRB libraries. The portal leverages …

This paper describes the Grid Resource Broker (GRB) portal, a Web gateway to
computational Grids in use at the University of Lecce. The portal allows trusted users …

Today, as Grid Computing is becoming a reality, there is a need for managing and
monitoring the available resources worldwide, as well as the need for conveying these …

This short chapter summarizes the current status of Grid Computational and Programming
environments. It puts the corresponding section of this book in context and integrates a …

In this paper we describe a library layered on top of basic Globus services. The library
provides high level services, can be used to develop both web-based and desktop grid …

Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users,
due to the absence of two important catalysts: First, a widely accepted vision on how …

Grid computing has been presented as a way of sharing geographically and
organizationally distributed resources and of performing successfully distributed …

Grid aspects that form grid computing environments (GCEs) are not cleanly defined,
although there is an operational definition stemming from the work areas of the GCE …

In this paper we discuss two of the major Grid portal solutions, the Open Grid Computing
Environments Collaboratory (OGCE) and GridPortlets, both of which provide basic tools that …

This short paper summarizes a set of 28 papers gathered together by the GCE (Grid
Computing Environment) group of the Global Grid Forum. This set is published in 2002 as a …