The Grid from a Services View

Resource-specific implementations of basic services

:

E.g., Transport protocols, name servers, differentiated services, CPU schedulers, public key

infrastructure, site accounting, directory service, OS bypass

Resource-independent and application-independent services

:

E.g.,

authentication, authorization, resource location, resource allocation, events, accounting,

remote data access, information, policy, fault detection

Distributed

Computing

Applications

Toolkit

Grid Fabric

(Resources)

Grid Services

(Middleware)

Application

Toolkits

Data-

Intensive

Applications

Toolkit

Collaborative

Applications

Toolkit

Remote

Visualization

Applications

Toolkit

Problem

Solving

Applications

Toolkit

Remote

Instrumentation

Applications

Toolkit

Applications

Chemistry

Biology

Cosmology

Nanotechnology

Environment

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