Combining Virtual Organization and Local Policies for Automated Configuration of Grid Services

  • Authors:
  • Shishir Bharathi;Beom Kun Kim;Ann Chervenak;Robert Schuler

  • Affiliations:
  • USC Information Sciences Institute;USC Information Sciences Institute;USC Information Sciences Institute;USC Information Sciences Institute

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We investigate approaches for the automated configuration of distributed Grid services. In particular, we implement several approaches for combining configuration information specified by a group of collaborating institutions (a Virtual Organization or VO) with local configuration parameters. We describe our implementation of merging strategies for configuring the Globus Replica Location Service. Based on our initial work, we describe outstanding issues for merging local and VO configuration policies and for resolving conflicting policies.