How CN and P2P technologies may help build next-generation grids

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Pierre

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second workshop on Use of P2P, GRID and agents for the development of content networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

With the evolution of technology, Grids cannot be considered any more solely as a federation of a modest number of powerful cluster computers. Trends show that future Grids will instead be composed of extremely large numbers of individual machines, which may or may not be part of a high-performance cluster. Such evolution forces one to reconsider the design of a number of important Grid services. This paper explores a number of those, and argues that technologies originally developed in the content delivery network and in the peer-to-peer communities may help solve some of the issues that next-generation technologies will face.