Cosmology of the early universe viewed through the new infrastructure
Communications of the ACM
Mini-Grids: Effective Test-Beds for GRID Application
GRID '00 Proceedings of the First IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
The DataTAG transatlantic testbed
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: High-speed networks and services for data-intensive grids: The DataTAG project
ShanghaiGrid: an Information Service Grid: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
GMPLS-based service differentiation for scalable QoS support in all-optical Grid applications
Future Generation Computer Systems - Collaborative and learning applications of grid technology
Seamless live migration of virtual machines over the MAN/WAN
Future Generation Computer Systems - IGrid 2005: The global lambda integrated facility
Live wide-area migration of virtual machines including local persistent state
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Compute and storage clouds using wide area high performance networks
Future Generation Computer Systems
Network-aware scheduling for real-time execution support in data-intensive optical Grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
Network-aware migration control and scheduling of differentiated virtual machine workloads
CLOUD '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing
Performance modeling and analysis for centralized resource scheduling in metropolitan-area grids
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advanced Web and Network Technologies, and Applications
Future Generation Computer Systems
Meta-scheduling algorithms for managing inter-cloud interoperability
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
A grid monitoring model over network-aware IaaS cloud infrastructure
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
Interconnecting Federated Clouds by Using Publish-Subscribe Service
Cluster Computing
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Grid computing offers us an effective approach, infrastructure and trend for coordinated resource sharing, problem solving and service integration into dynamic, multi-institutional, virtual organizations often spanning several distant sites in a large urban or regional area. In this paper, we discuss opportunities and challenges in the Grid resource management infrastructure and network control plane design, critical to the provision of network-assisted extensible Grid services on the metropolitan scale. Such services can empower a real high performance distributed computing system built on optical transport networks, administered within a single domain and offering plenty of cheap bandwidth to e-science applications. This approach makes the transport infrastructure the main enabling factor of a novel Grid vision, the ''Metropolitan Area Grid'' (MAG), aiming at unifying many geographically distributed federated computational and storage resources into a common ''virtual site'' abstraction, so that they can cooperate as if they were in the same Server Farm and Local Area Network. Simply stated, the MAG concept aims to make applications running on our metro Grid infrastructure aware of their complete computational and networking environment and capabilities, and able to make dynamic, adaptive and optimized use of heterogeneous network infrastructures connecting various high-end resources. As a proof of concept, we realized within the SCoPE High Performance Computing environment the prototype of a basic MAG architecture by implementing a novel centralized network resource management service supporting a flexible Grid-application interface and several effective network resource reservation facilities.