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Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. These two worlds, however, can no longer be separated islands. As a matter of fact, pervasive and grid computing communities can both benefit from joining the two paradigms. This conjunction is already taking place. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid environments with mechanisms for: i) integrating mobile devices in a pervasive way; ii) providing context-awareness; and, iii) handling mobile users’ sessions. Such services are OGSA compliant and have been deployed as grid services in order to be easily integrated in classic grid environments.
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Ciampi, M., Coronato, A., De Pietro, G. (2006). Middleware Services for Pervasive Grids. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T., Di Martino, B., Zima, H.P., Dongarra, J., Tang, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11946441_47
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