GridWeaver: automatic, adaptive, large-scale fabric configuration for Grid Computing

Abstract

The Gridweaver project reviewed the management tools and techniques currently available for Large Scale Configuration. We substantiated that these will not be able to sustain the demands of the Grid services currently in production, unless there is a paradigm shift towards high-level, declarative descriptions of fabric configurations. Our prototype configuration architecture offered this power and allowed our research Grid service, GPrint, to demonstrate ease of maintenance, adaptability to the demands of the fabric and fault tolerance