Grid and Services Evolution

Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Grid and Services Evolution, the 11^th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, was based on The CoreGRID Middleware Workshop, held in Barcelona, Spain, June 5-6, 2008.

Grid and Services Evolution provides a bridge between the application community and the developers of middleware services, especially in terms of parallel computing. This edited volume brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers worldwide, from forty-two institutions active in the fields of distributed systems and middleware, programming models, algorithms, tools and environments.

Grid and Services Evolution is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners within the Grid community industry. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

A Java Task Execution Manager for Commodity Grids.- Evaluation of Custom vs Commodity Technology-based Storage Elements..- A Model of Non Functional Properties for Grid Resources.- Grid Checkpointing Service.- Extending GWorkflowDL: a Multi-Purpose Language for Workflow Enactment..- Workflow Monitoring and Analysis Tool for ASKALON.- Using gLite to Implement a Secure ICGrid.- Grid-Based Workflow Management.- Fault Detection, Prevention and Recovery in Current Grid Workflow Systems.- Towards Self-adaptable Monitoring Framework for Self-healing.- Performance Monitoring of GRID superscalar: Summing up.- Authorizing Grid Resource Access and Consumption.- Graphical Tool for the Management of DIET GridRPC Middleware..- An Efficient Protocol for Reserving Multiple Grid Resources in Advance..- Scalable Concurrency Control in a Dynamic Membership.- Improving the Peer-to-Peer Ring for Building Fault-Tolerant Grids.