Neumann / Fahringer Grid Economics and Business Models

5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008, Proceeedings
2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-85485-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5206, 236 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The Grid computing concept, which allows users to integrate administratively and g- graphically dispersed computing resources, has been gaining traction in a number of application areas during the past few years. By interconnecting many – heterogeneous, though usually virtualized – computing resources, virtual computer centers or superc- puters can be created, providing a seamless supply of computing resources. Grid comp- ing provides benefits not only for scientific computing (e.g., SETI@home, which interconnects one million computers across 226 countries with a total processing power of 711 TFLOPS) but also in a commercial environment. It is projected that computing Grids can lower the total IT costs of businesses by 30%. The report “Grid Computing: A Vertical Market Perspective 2005–2010” (by The Insight Research Corporation) estimates an increase of worldwide Grid spending from $714.9 million in 2005 to approximately $19.2 billion in 2010. One of the most prominent activities in academia is the EGEE project being funded with 30 MEuro by the European Commission. EGEE brings together researchers from over 27 countries with the common aim of developing a service Grid infrastructure, which is suited for scientific computing with very high demand for processing power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neumann, Dirk

Fahringer, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Grid Business Modeling.- Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets.- Business Relationships in Grid Workflows.- Market Mechanisms for the Grid.- The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets.- Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources.- Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning.- Grid Markets.- Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids.- The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the “Software-as-a-Service” Business Model.- Grid Architectures.- On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System.- Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements.- Research Projects on Business Modeling.- BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry.- Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- BREIN, Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business.- Research Projects on Market Mechanisms.- SORMA – Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation.- GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources.- Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids.- Research Projects on Grid Architecture.- The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments.- The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview.- AssessGrid Strategies for Provider Ranking Mechanisms in Risk–Aware Grid Systems.