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Grid computing has gone through some generations and as a result only a few widely used middleware architectures remain. The Globus Toolkit is the most widespread middleware in most of the current production grid systems, but the LCG-2 middleware dominates in Europe. The paper describes a brokering solution that enables the interoperability of various Globus and LCG-2 based grids during the execution of workflow applications, and supports users to utilize computing and storage resources from multiple production grids by a single application. The development and execution of such applications can be managed by a Web-based Grid portal called P-GRADE Portal, and the brokering of the workflows is carried out by its integrated GTbroker and LCG-2 broker component.
This research work is carried out under the FP6 Network of Excellence CoreGRID funded by the European Commission (Contract IST-2002-004265).
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Kertész, A., Sipos, G., Kacsuk, P. (2007). Brokering Multi-grid Workflows in the P-GRADE Portal. In: Lehner, W., Meyer, N., Streit, A., Stewart, C. (eds) Euro-Par 2006 Workshops: Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72337-0_14
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