The evolution of Grid Brokers: Union for Interoperability
Attila Kertész
Attila Kertész
Grid resource management is probably the research field most affected by user demands. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers, meta-schedulers have been developed, new capabilities are required, such as agreement and interoperability support. Existing solutions cannot cross the border of current middleware systems that are lacking the support of these requirements. In this paper we examine and compare different research directions followed by researchers in the field of Grid Resource Management, in order to establish Grid Interoperability. We propose a meta-brokering approach, which means a higher level resource management by enabling communication among existing Grid Brokers and utilizing them.