The Grid Information Service (GIS) is one of the Grid Common Services which make up the
basic functions belonging to Grids. This service offers a resource discovery mechanism, of …

Resource discovery and monitoring in a distributed grid environment gives rise to several
issues, one of which is the provision of reliable performance and hence, the quality-of …

Despite important advances in Grid computing, scalability and interoperability issues
obstruct the integration of the existing isolated grids into the Grid. We propose a worldwide …

The goal of the Grid Observatory project (GO) is to contribute to an experimental theory of
large grid systems by integrating the collection of data on the behaviour of the flagship …

Distributed grid applications are becoming more and more popular as the use of complex
grid middlewares becomes extensive, and more facilities are offered by these complex …

Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing
the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different locations …

Grids have the potential to revolutionize computing by providing ubiquitous, on demand
access to computational services and resources. However, grid systems are extremely large …

Grid is distributed, heterogeneous environment comprised of various resources. Monitoring
of grid resources is essential for realizing functionalities such as failure detection …

The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of
considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resources …

Generally, users working on a grid infrastructure have a keen interest in knowing (tight)
upper bounds for execution times of useful grid services and their own submitted jobs …