Grids@SC2004:

THE GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE GRID SERVICE BROKER v1.2

The Grid Service Broker, developed as part of the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, mediates access to distributed resources by: (a) discovering suitable data sources for a given analysis scenario; (b) suitable computational resources; (c) optimally mapping analysis jobs to resources; (d) deploying and monitoring job execution on selected resources; (e) accessing data from local or remote data source during job execution; and (f) collating and presenting results. The broker supports a declarative and dynamic parametric programming model for creating Grid applications.

The Gridbus broker v1.2 supports the following middleware:

• Globus 2.4.x.
• Alchemi 0.8.0.
• UNICORE 4.1.0.

The Gridbus Broker is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is partially supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, Storage Technology and the University of Melbourne.

What's New:

• Economy support from ground-up including for scheduling jobs on data Grids.
• Flexible XML based job input.
• Support for Unicore (experimental).
• Improved support for Globus 2.4.x and Alchemi 0.8.0.
• New command to enable copying files to/from a GSIFTP source.
• GUI Monitoring tool.
• Logging using log4j and expanded API documentation.

Download information

The broker source code,binaries, documentation and manual can be downloaded from http://www.Gridbus.org/broker/.

Contact Information

For further details about the Gridbus broker and/or the Gridbus project please contact:

• Rajkumar Buyya, raj@cs.mu.oz.au.
• Srikumar Venugopal, srikumar@cs.mu.oz.au.

Licenses and Disclaimer

The Gridbus broker and the GUI is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. Other libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their own respective licenses which are also included.

This product includes software developed by and/or derived from the Globus project, http://www.globus.org/. This product includes dom4j libraries, http://www.dom4j.org.