How dynamic is the Grid? Towards a quality metric for Grid information systems

Laurence Field, Rizos Sakellariou

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    Abstract

    Grid information systems play a core role in today's production Grid Infrastructures. They provide a coherent view of the Grid services in the infrastructure while addressing the performance, robustness and scalability issues that occur in dynamic, large-scale, distributed systems. Quality metrics for Grid information systems are required in order to compare different implementations and to evaluate suggested improvements. This paper proposes the adoption of a quality metric, first used in the domain of Web search, to measure the quality of Grid information systems with respect to their information content. The application of this metric requires an understanding of the dynamic nature of Grid information. An empirical study based on information from the EGEE Grid infrastructure is carried out to estimate the frequency of change for different types of Grid information. Using this data, the proposed metric is assessed with regards to its applicability to measuring the quality of Grid information systems. © 2010 IEEE.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing|Proc. IEEE ACM Int. Workshop Grid Comput.
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages113-120
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Print)9781424493487
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Grid 2010 - Brussels
    Duration: 1 Jul 2010 → …

    Conference

    Conference2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Grid 2010
    CityBrussels
    Period1/07/10 → …

    Keywords

    • Grid Information Systems
    • Information Freshness

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