Service-Level Agreements and Commercial Grids
IEEE Internet Computing
Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide
Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide
Dynamic VO Establishment in Distributed Heterogeneous Business Environments
ICCS 2009 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science
Perspectives on grid computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
Processing moldable tasks on the grid: Late job binding with lightweight user-level overlay
Future Generation Computer Systems
PL-Grid: foundations and perspectives of national computing infrastructure
Building a National Distributed e-Infrastructure - PL-Grid
Implementation of service level management in PL-Grid infrastructure
Building a National Distributed e-Infrastructure - PL-Grid
Polish computational research space for international scientific collaborations
PPAM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics - Volume Part I
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The recent years saw an evolution of Grid technologies from early ideas to production deployments. At the same time, the expectations for Grids shifted from idealistic hopes -- buoyed by the successes of the initial testbeds -- to disillusionment with available implementations when applied to large-scale general purpose computing. In this paper, we argue that a mature e-Infrastructure aiming to bridge the gaps between visions and realities cannot be delivered without introducing Service Level Management (SLM). To support this thesis, we present an analysis of the Grid foundations and definitions that shows that SLM-related ideas were incorporated in them from the beginning. Next, we describe how implementing SLM in Grids could improve the usability and user-experience of the infrastructure --- both for its customers and service providers. We also present a selection of real-life Grid application scenarios that are important for the research communities supported by the Grid, but cannot be efficiently supported without the SLM process in place. In addition, the paper contains introduction to SLM, a discussion on what introducing SLM to Grids might mean in practice, and what were the current efforts already applied in this field.