Message oriented middleware (MOM) frameworks enable one or more enterprise applications to communicate and share data in a heterogeneous environment. In addition to supporting heterogeneity, they also support asynchronous communication and tolerance to network failures. MOMs provide a standardized and fault tolerant way for applications to produce, exchange, and consume messages without any regard to [...]
An enterprise portal is a secure unified access point in the form of a web interface to an organization’s information, data, processes, application, and people. In other words, all employees of an organization are required to log in an internal website to access any application, information, and data pertaining to that organization. Having a single point [...]
Although this article does not really fit the theme of this blog, I honestly believe it is well worth a mention. Last week I attended a workshop on Mental Toughness by Dr. Steve Bull (consultant psychologist to the England cricket team). Undoubtedly, it was one of the best workshops I have attended. In his workshop Dr. Bull [...]
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Grid Middleware. Gregor von Laszewski and Kaizar Amin. Chapter 5: Middleware for Communications, ed. Qusay H. Mahmoud. Wiley Publishers 2004. (pdf)
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The creation of Grid middleware is an essential aspect of the software engineering effort to create an evolving layer of infrastructure residing between the network and applications. In order to be effective, this Grid middleware [...]
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Quality of Service Based Grid Communities. Omer Rana, Asif Akram, Rashid Al-Ali, David Walker, Gregor von Laszewski, and Kaizar Amin. Chapter 8: Extending Web Services Technologies, The Use of Multi-Agent Approaches. Ed: Lawrence Cavedon, Zakaria Maamar, David Martin and Boualem Benatallah, 2004, pages 161-186.
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Locating suitable services within a dynamic distributed system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and [...]
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A Model for Quality-of-Service Provision in Service Oriented Architectures. Rashid Al-Ali, Omer Rana, Gregor von Laszewski, Abdelhakim Hafid, Kaizar Amin and David Walker. Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience (2005). (part1/part2)
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Clients of service-oriented Grids are often concerned with service “quality” and the computational/economic costs for using such a service. A Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanism should identify [...]
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Network QoS Provision for Distributed Grid Applications. Rashid Al-Ali, Shaleeza Sohail, Omer Rana, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Amin, Sanjay Jha and David Walker. International Journal of Simulations, Vol. 5 No 5. ISSN 1473-804x online, 1473-8031 print. 13. (pdf)
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Grid computing provides a global-scale distributed computing infrastructure for executing scientific and business applications. An important requirement [...]
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Ad hoc Grid Security Infrastructure. Amin, K.; von Laszewski, G.; Sosonkin, M.; Mikler, A.R.; Hategan, M.; Grid Computing, 2005. The 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on 13-14 Nov. 2005 Page(s):8 pp.
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This paper describes an ad hoc grid security infrastructure developed as a part of the Java CoG Kit project. It supports several requirements specific to the sporadic nature of [...]
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An Abstraction Model for a Grid Execution Framework. Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, Rashid Al Ali, Omer Rana, and David Walker, Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 52, Issue 2 , February 2006, Pages 73-87, Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing. (pdf)
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Computational Grids have been identified as one of the paradigms revolutionizing the discipline of distributed computing. The contributions within [...]
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Quality Assured Ad Hoc Grids. Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, and Armin R. Mikler. In International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems International Conference on Networking and Services. IEEE, 23-28 October 2005. (pdf)
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This paper presents an integrated architecture for ad hoc Grids developed within the Java CoG Kit project. It provides an overview of the key component [...]