Title :
Service-level agreements and commercial grids
Author :
Leff, Avraham ; Rayfield, James T. ; Dias, Daniel M.
Abstract :
Service-level agreements impose unique requirements on commercial grid infrastructures - specifically, they emphasize the need for a dynamic offload infrastructure.
Keywords :
Internet; distributed processing; resource allocation; workstation clusters; Grid computing; commercial grid infrastructures; dynamic offload infrastructure; large-scale cluster computing; service-level agreements; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Contracts; Costs; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Resource management; Scientific computing;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2003.1215659
