Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach

Anjum, Ashiq; Hill, Richard; McClatchey, Richard; Branson, Andrew; Bessis, Nik

Abstract

Scientific communities are actively developing services to exploit the capabilities of service-oriented distributed systems. This exploitation requires services to be specified and developed for a range of activities such as management and scheduling of workflows and provenance capture and management. Most of these services are designed and developed for a particular community of scientific users. The constraints imposed by architectures, interfaces or platforms can restrict or even prohibit the free interchange of services between disparate scientific communities. Using the notion of 'Platform as a Service' (PaaS), we propose an architectural approach that addresses these limitations so that users can make use of a wider range of services without being concerned about the development of cross-platform middleware, wrappers or any need for bespoke applications. The proposed architecture shields the details of heterogeneous Grid/Cloud infrastructure within a brokering environment, thus enabling users to concentrate on the specification of higher level services. Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Citation

Anjum, A., Hill, R., McClatchey, R., Branson, A., & Bessis, N. (2012). Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach. International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 8(3), 248-265. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049169

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Feb 28, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 15, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Web and Grid Services
• Print ISSN: 1741-1106
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-1114
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 248-265
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049169
• Keywords: grid computing, cloud computing, service oriented architecture, SOA, platform as a service, distributed systems, distributed computing, services
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/943681
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049169