Mediation of Service Overhead in Service-Oriented Grid Architectures

Grid computing applications and infrastructures build heavily on Service-Oriented Computing development methodology and are often realized as Service-Oriented Architectures. The Grid Job Management Framework (GJMF) is a flexible Grid infrastructure and application support tool that offers a range of abstractive and platform independent interfaces for middleware-agnostic Grid job submission, monitoring, and control. In this paper we use the GJMF as a test bed for characterization of Grid Service-Oriented Architecture overhead, and evaluate the efficiency of a set of design patterns for overhead mediation mechanisms featured in the framework.