Abstract
A ‘second generation’ approach to the provision of Grid middleware is now emerging which is built on service-oriented architecture and web services standards and technologies. However, advanced Grid applications have significant demands that are not addressed by present-day web services platforms. As one prime example, current platforms do not support the rich diversity of communication ‘interaction types’ that are demanded by advanced applications (e.g. publish-subscribe, media streaming, peer-to-peer interaction). In the paper we describe the Gridkit middleware which augments the basic service-oriented architecture to address this particular deficiency. We particularly focus on the communications infrastructure support required to support multiple interaction types in a unified, principled and extensible manner—which we present in terms of the novel concept of pluggable overlay networks.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Grimshaw, A., Ferrari, A., Knabe, F., Humphrey, M.: Legion: An Operating System for Wide-Area Computing. IEEE Computer 32(5), 29–37 (1999)
Foster, I., Kesselman, C., Tuecke, S.: The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Virtual Organizations. International Journal of Supercomputer Applications 15(3) (2001)
Centre for Sustainable Water Management, http://www.swm.lancs.ac.uk/
Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., Blair, G.S.: An Extensible Binding Framework for Component-Based Middleware. In: Proc. EDOC 2003, Brisbane, Australia (September 2003)
Coulson, G., Grace, P., Blair, G.S., Mathy, L., Duce, D., Cooper, C., Yeung, W.K., Cai, W.: Towards a Component-based Middleware Framework for Configurable and Reconfigurable Grid Computing. In: Proc. Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Grid (ETNGRID 2004), associated with 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2004), Modena, Italy (June 2004)
El-Sayed, A., Roca, V., Mathy, L.: A Survey of Proposals for an Alternative Group Communication Service. IEEE Network 17(1), 46–51 (2003)
Floyd, S., Jacobson, V., Liu, C., McCanne, S., Zhang, L.: A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 5(6), 784–803 (1997)
Czajkowski, K., Foster, I., Karonis, N., Carl Kesselman, C., Martin, S., Smith, W., Tuecke, S.: A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems. In: Proc. Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, pp. 62–82. Springer, Heidelberg (1998) ISBN 3-540-64825-9
Smith, P., Simpson, S., Hutchison, D.: Peer-to-Peer Networking for Discovering Programmable Resources. In: Proc. 4th Intl. Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC 2002), Boston, USA, October 23-25 (2002)
Pallickara, S., Fox, G.: NaradaBrokering: A Distributed Middleware Framework and Architecture for Enabling Durable Peer-to-Peer Grids. In: Endler, M., Schmidt, D.C. (eds.) Middleware 2003. LNCS, vol. 2672, Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Parlavantzas, N., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G.: A Resource Adaptation Framework for Reflective Middleware. In: Endler, M., Schmidt, D.C. (eds.) Middleware 2003. LNCS, vol. 2672, Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Coulson, G., Blair, G.S., Clark, M., Parlavantzas, N.: The Design of a Highly Configurable and Reconfigurable Middleware Platform. ACM Distributed Computing Journal 15(2), 109–126 (2002)
Clark, M., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Parlavantzas, N.: An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware. In: Guerraoui, R. (ed.) Middleware 2001. LNCS, vol. 2218, p. 160. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Grace, P., Blair, G.S., Samuel, S.: ReMMoC: A Reflective Middleware to Support Mobile Client Interoperability. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Schmidt, D.C. (eds.) CoopIS 2003, DOA 2003, and ODBASE 2003. LNCS, vol. 2888, pp. 1170–1187. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Balakrishnan, H., Kaashoek, F., Karger, D., Morris, R., Stoica, I.: Looking Up Data in P2P Systems. CACM 46(2), 43–48 (2003)
Mathy, L., Roberto Canonico, R., Hutchison, D.: An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol. In: Crowcroft, J., Hofmann, M. (eds.) NGC 2001. LNCS, vol. 2233, pp. 76–87. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Gnutella Community. “Gnutella Protocol Specification v0.4”, dss.clip2.com/GnutellaProtocol04.pdf
Stoica, I., Morris, R., Karger, D., Kaashoek, M.F., Balakarishnan, H.: Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications. In: Proc. ACM SIG-COMM, San Diego (2001)
Rowstron, A., Druschel, P.: Pastry: Scalable, Distributed Object Location and Routing for Large-scale Peer-to-Peer Systems. In: Guerraoui, R. (ed.) Middleware 2001. LNCS, vol. 2218, p. 329. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Ratnasamy, S., Francis, P., Handley, M., Karp, R., Shenker, S.: A Scalable Content-Addressable Network. In: Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, San Diego (2001)
Zhao, B., Huang, L., Stribling, J., Rhea, S., Joseph, A., Kubiatowicz, J.: Tapestry: A Resilient Global-scale Overlay for Service Deployment. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 22(1) (January 2004)
Castro, M., Druschel, P., Kermarrec, A.-M., Rowstron, A.: SCRIBE: A Large-Scale and Decentralised Application-Level Multicast Infrastructure. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Special issue on Network Support for Multicast Communications) (2002)
Castro, M., Costa, M., Rowstron, A.: Should we build Gnutella on a structured overlay? In: Proc. 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Cambridge, MA USA (November 2003)
Castro, M., Druschel, P., Kermarrec, A.-M., Nandi, A., Rowstron, A., Singh, A.: SplitStream: High-bandwidth Content Distribution in a Cooperative Environment. In: Kaashoek, M.F., Stoica, I. (eds.) IPTPS 2003. LNCS, vol. 2735, Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Dabek, F., Zhao, B., Druschel, P., Kubiatowicz, J., Stoica, I.: Towards a Common API for Structured P2P Overlays. In: Kaashoek, M.F., Stoica, I. (eds.) IPTPS 2003. LNCS, vol. 2735, Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Meier, R., Cahill, V.: STEAM: Event-Based Middleware for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In: Proc. of the International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems (ICDCS/DEBS 2002), Vienna, Austria, pp. 639–644 (2002)
Hughes, D., Warren, I., Coulson, G.: AGnuS: The Altruistic Gnutella Server. In: Proc. 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2003), Linkoping, Sweden (2003)
Furmento, N., Mayer, A., McGough, S., Newhouse, S., Field, T., Darlington, J.: ICENI: Optimisation of Component Applications within a Grid Environment. Parallel Computing 28(12), 1753–1772 (2002)
Kon, F., Roman, M., Liu, P., Mao, J., Yamane, T., Magalhaes, L., Campbell, R.: Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB. In: Coulson, G., Sventek, J. (eds.) Middleware 2000. LNCS, vol. 1795, p. 121. Springer, Heidelberg (2000)
Roman, M., Kon, F., Campbell, R.: Reflective Middleware: From Your Desk to Your Hand. IEEE Distributed Systems Online 2(5) (August 2001)
Andersen, A., Blair, G., Goebel, V., Karlsen, R., Stabell-Kulø, T., Yu, W.: Arctic Beans: Configurable and Reconfigurable Enterprise Component Architectures. IEEE Distributed Systems Online 2(7) (2001)
Sadjadi, S., McKinley, P., Kasten, E.: Architecture and Operation of an Adaptable Communication Substrate. In: Proc. Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2003), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2003, pp. 46–55 (2003)
Li, B., Guo, J., Wang, M.: iOverlays: A Lightweight Middleware Infrastructure for Overlay Application Implementations. In: Jacobsen, H.-A. (ed.) Middleware 2004. LNCS, vol. 3231, pp. 135–154. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
Rodriguez, A., Killian, C., Bhat, S., Kostic, D., Vahdat, A.: “MACEDON: Methodology for Automatically Creating, Evaluating and Designing Overlay Networks. In: Proc. USENIX/ACM Symp. on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2004 (2004)
Intanagonwiwat, C., Govindan, R.: Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks. In: Pro. 6th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Mobicom 2000 (2000)
Culler, D.E., Hong, W.: Special Section on Wireless Sensor Networks. Communications of the ACM (June 2004)
Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Blair, L., Duran-Limon, H., Grace, P., Moreira, R., Parlavantzas, N.: Reflection, Self-Awareness and Self-Healing in OpenORB. In: Proc. ACM Sigsoft Workshop on Self-Healing Systems (WOSS 2002) (November 2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Grace, P. et al. (2004). GRIDKIT: Pluggable Overlay Networks for Grid Computing. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30469-2_40
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30469-2_40
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-23662-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-30469-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive