Speaker
Dr
Felix Heine
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
Description
Grid technologies have reached a high level of development,
but adopters underline
core shortcomings related to security, trustiness, and
dependability of the Grid for
commercial applications and services. Service Level
Agreements (SLAs) should be used
to define the quality of service for a job execution.
However, providers are still
cautious on adoption as agreeing on SLAs including penalty
fees is a business risk:
system failure, operator unavailability etc. can lead to an
SLA violation. AssessGrid
will address the risk awareness and consideration in SLA
negotiation, self-organising
fault-tolerant actions, and capacity planning. Risk
assessment methods will serve
providers as decision support for accepting/rejecting SLAs,
for price/penalty
negotiation, for activating fault-tolerance actions, and for
capacity and service
planning. A confidence service will be developed in
AssessGrid for supporting
customers in the estimation of provider’s reliability.
The AssessGrid results will support all Grid actors by
increasing the transparency,
reliability, and trustworthiness as well as providing an
objective foundation for
planning and management of Grid activities.
Summary
Project Partners (Contact person):
- Abo Akadami University, Finland (Prof. Dr. Christer Carlsson)
- Atos Origin SAE, Spain Mr. Josep Martrat)
- CETIC, Belgium (Mr. Stéphane Mouton)
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Dr. Karim Djemame)
- Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH, Germany (Mr. Jörg Stümke)
Author
Dr
Felix Heine
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
Co-authors
Dr
Georg Birkenheuer
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
Dr
Kerstin Voss
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
Dr
Matthias Hovestadt
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
Prof.
Odej Kao
(Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
