The Almaden OptimalGrid project

Author

Deen, Glenn ; Lehman, Toby ; Kaufman, James

Author_Institution

IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6/25/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

21

Abstract

In this paper, we present a description of the Almaden OptimalGrid Project, which is self-configuring, and optimizing grid middleware that makes it easy to harness the computational resources available on a computing grid. OptimalGrid incorporates the core tenants of autonomic computing $self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing - to create an environment in which it is possible for application developers to exploit these features, without the need to either build them, or to code to external APIs. OptimalGrid implements autonomic functionality in a middleware layer allowing development of self-optimizing applications for a grid, without the need to be conscious of the underlying grid technology.

Keywords

adaptive systems; finite element analysis; metacomputing; middleware; optimisation; Almaden OptimalGrid project; autonomic computing; autonomic functionality; computational resource; computing grid; distributed computing; external API; grid technology; middleware layer; optimizing grid middleware; self-configuration; self-configuring grid middleware; self-healing; self-optimization; Business; Computational efficiency; Computer applications; Concurrent computing; Conferences; Cost function; Finite element methods; Grid computing; Middleware; Proteins;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomic Computing Workshop. 2003. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1983-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACW.2003.1210199

Filename

1210199