The Grid Resource Broker, a ubiquitous grid computing framework

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Aloisio, Giovanni | Cafaro, Massimo | Blasi, Euro | Epicoco, Italo

Affiliations: Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Italy. E-mail: {giovanni.aloisio, massimo.cafaro, euro.blasi, italo.epicoco}@unile.it

Abstract: Portals to computational/data grids provide the scientific community with a friendly environment in order to solve large-scale computational problems. The Grid Resource Broker (GRB) is a grid portal that allows trusted users to create and handle computational/data grids on the fly exploiting a simple and friendly web-based GUI. GRB provides location-transparent secure access to Globus services, automatic discovery of resources matching the user's criteria, selection and scheduling on behalf of the user. Moreover, users are not required to learn Globus and they do not need to write specialized code or to rewrite their existing legacy codes. We describe GRB architecture, its components and current GRB features addressing the main differences between our approach and related work in the area.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 113-119, 2002