Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A
quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitations …

Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or grid. A
quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitations …

GridRM is an open and extensible resource monitoring system, based on the Global Grid
Forum's grid monitoring architecture (GMA). GridRM is not intended to interact with …

The Grid2003 Project has deployed a multivirtual organization, application-driven grid
laboratory (" Grid3") that has sustained for several months the production-level services …

Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal
consortia of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations …

Grid computing is becoming the natural way to aggregate and share large sets of
heterogeneous resources. With the infrastructure becoming ready for the challenge, current …

Data sets being managed in grid environments today are growing at a rapid rate, expected
to reach 100s of petabytes in the near future. Managing such large data sets poses …

Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and
distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of …

Applications that use collections of very large, distributed datasets have become an
increasingly important part of science and engineering. With high performance wide-area …

Summary form only given. Like all computing platforms, grids are in need of a suite of
benchmarks by which they can be evaluated, compared and characterized. As a first step …