Short paper: Materializing Highly Available Grids

Author

Silberstein, Mark ; Kliot, Gabriel ; Sharov, Artyom ; Schuster, Assaf ; Livny, Miron

Author_Institution

Technion, Haifa

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

323

Abstract

Grids are becoming a mission-critical component in research and industry. The services they provide are thus required to be highly available, contributing to the vision of the grid as a dependable virtual computer of infinite power. However, building highly available services in grid is particularly difficult due to the unique characteristics of the grid environment. We believe that high availability functionality should itself be provided as a service, which can be used by transparently decorating, but not changing, the original services, thus making them highly available. In this work we highlight the major challenges and describe our initial experience in building such a generic high availability service in the context of the Condor system

Keywords

grid computing; open systems; parallel processing; HA Condor system; highly available grid service; mission-critical component; virtual computer; Availability; Computer industry; Computer vision; Context-aware services; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Mission critical systems; Production; Protocols; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 2006 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0307-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.2006.1652166

Filename

1652166