GPC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
A Kerberos security architecture for web services based instrumentation grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
Analysis of Muscle and Metabolic Activity during Multiplanar-Cardiofitness Training
ICCS '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science: Part I
GMBS: A new middleware service for making grids interoperable
Future Generation Computer Systems
e-Infrastructure for Remote Instrumentation
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Current Grid technologies offer unlimited computational power and storage capacity for scientific research and business activities in heterogeneous areas over the world. Thanks to the Grid, different Virtual Organizations can operate together in order to achieve common goals. However, concrete use cases demand a more close interaction between various types of instruments accessible from the Grid, and the classical Grid infrastructure, typically composed of Computing and Storage Elements. We cope with this open problem by proposing and realizing the first release of the Instrument Element, i.e., a new Grid component that provides the computational/data Grid with an abstraction of real instruments, and Grid users with a more interactive interface to control them. In this paper we discuss in detail the proposed software architecture for this new component, then we report some performance results concerning its first prototype, and finally we present a pair of concrete use cases, which the Instrument Element has been successfully integrated with.