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Many production level Grid systems deployed today are characterized by their focus on the integration of dedicated high-end systems and their high administration and maintenance costs. We make the case for lightweight Grid middleware as a prerequisite to harnessing general computing resources in order to achieve large scale computing. We outline the characteristics of the environment in which such a lightweight Grid operates and the ensuing middleware requirements. We analyze the possible contribution of two distributed frameworks, Jini and JXTA, in achieving these requirements.
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Vanmechelen, K., Broeckhove, J. (2005). On Using Jini and JXTA in Lightweight Grids. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Priol, T., Reinefeld, A., Bubak, M. (eds) Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. EGC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508380_40
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