Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on metacomputing
A grid-enabled MPI: message passing in heterogeneous distributed computing systems
SC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A computational economy for grid computing and its implementation in the Nimrod-G resource broker
Future Generation Computer Systems - Grid computing: Towards a new computing infrastructure
NPACI Rocks: Tools and Techniques for Easily Deploying Manageable Linux Clusters
CLUSTER '01 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Distributed Ant: A System to Support Application Deployment in the Grid
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Application Deployment over Heterogeneous Grids using Distributed Ant
E-SCIENCE '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Analysis of Jobs in a Multi-Organizational Grid Test-bed
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Deploying Scientific Applications to the PRAGMA Grid Testbed: Strategies and Lessons
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
A hybrid approach to replica management in data grids
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
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This paper describes the coordination, design and implementation of the PRAGMA Grid. Applications in genomics, quantum mechanics, climate simulation, organic chemistry and molecular simulation have driven the middleware requirements, and the PRAGMA Grid provides a mechanism for science and technology teams to collaborate, for grids to interoperate and for international users to share software beyond the essential, de facto standard Globus core. Several middleware tools developed by researchers within PRAGMA have been deployed in the PRAGMA grid and this has enabled significant insights, improvements and new collaborations to flourish. In this paper, we describe how human factors, resource availability and performance issues have affected the middleware, applications and the grid design. We also describe how middleware components in grid monitoring, grid accounting and grid file systems have dealt with some of the major characteristics of our grid. We also briefly describe a number of mechanisms that we have employed to make software easily available to PRAGMA and global grid communities.