Grid Resource Management: On-demand Provisioning, Advance Reservation, and Capacity Planning of Grid Resources

In a dynamic computing environment, such as the Grid, resource management plays a crucial role for making distributed resources available on—demand to anyone from anywhere at any time without undermining the resource autonomy; this becomes an art when dealing with heterogeneous resources distributed under multiple trust domains spanning across the Internet. Today Grid execution environments provide abstract workflow descriptions that need a dynamic mapping to actual deployments; this furthe...