Dynamic Virtual Organizations as Enablers for Managed Invisible Grids

As of today, grids provide the technology, applications, and platforms for a seamless access to resources, services, and content in a fully decentralized world of distributed information, computing power, and information technology business. Grid computing is about resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organization. Increasingly, advanced grid approaches address knowledge grids. Therefore, the goal is to create a transparent grid infrastructure, to make the grid invisible and to overcome today´s rather static approaches. Thus, the dynamic virtual organizations (DVOs) approach provides the right incentives to act as an enabler for invisible grids. First, this paper studies DVOs and its grid service management requirements. Second, a concept for service management of DVOs is presented