Towards Making BOINC and EGEE Interoperable

Author

Kacsuk, P. ; Farkas, Z. ; Fedak, G.

Author_Institution

MTA SZTAKI, Budapest

fYear

2008

fDate

7-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

484

Abstract

Today basically two grid concepts rule the world: service grids and desktop grids. Service grids offer an infrastructure for grid users, thus require notable management to keep the service running. On the other hand, desktop grids aim to utilize free CPU cycles of cheap desktop PCs, are easy to set up, but the availability towards users is limited compared to the service grid. The aim of the EDGeS project is to create an integrated infrastructure that combines the advantages of the two grid concepts. A building block of this infrastructure is bridging between the different grid types. In the paper we focus on bridging from desktop grids towards service grids, i.e. making desktop grids able to utilize free service grid resources.

Keywords

grid computing; open systems; resource allocation; scientific information systems; BOINC interoperable; Berkeley open infrastructure for network computing; EDGeS project; EGEE interoperable; desktop grid; enabling desktop grid for e-science; enabling grid for e-science; free service grid resource; grid concept rule; Availability; Bridges; Concurrent computing; Grid computing; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Middleware; Permission; Personal communication networks; Software maintenance; BOINC; Desktop Grid; EGEE; Grid; Service Grid; XtremWeb;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eScience, 2008. eScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Indianapolis, IN

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3380-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2008.111

Filename

4736855