Fine grained resource reservation in open grid economies

The CORA (Coallocative, Oversubscribing Resource Allocation) architecture is a market based resource reservation system that utilises a trustworthy Vickrey auction to make combinatorial allocations of resources. This paper provides an overview of several significant components of the CORA architecture. Firstly, CORA utilises a novel combination of techniques to improve utilisation, including oversubscription, coallocation, just-in-time reallocation and a flexible contract structure. Secondly, this paper utilises a new auction architecture that does not require the auctioneers to be trusted. The advantage is that any entity (untrusted or otherwise) can conduct a privacy preserving Vickrey auction, removing the need for a trusted and privileged auction service within the system. CORA demonstrates how a practical, efficient and trustworthy auction scheme can be implemented in a Grid Economy.

Advances in Grid Computing

This book approaches the grid computing with a perspective on the latest achievements in the field, providing an insight into the current research trends and advances, and presenting a large range of innovative research papers. The topics covered in this book include resource and data management, grid architectures and development, and grid-enabled applications. New ideas employing heuristic methods from swarm intelligence or genetic algorithm and quantum encryption are considered in order to explain two main aspects of grid computing: resource management and data management. The book addresses also some aspects of grid computing that regard architecture and development, and includes a diverse range of applications for grid computing, including possible human grid computing system, simulation of the fusion reaction, ubiquitous healthcare service provisioning and complex water systems