Speaker
Dr
Oliver Keeble
(CERN)
Description
Grid computing as currently understood is normally enabled through the
deployment of integrated software distributions which expose specific
interfaces to core resources (data, CPU), provide clients and also
higher level services. This paper examines the reasons for this reliance
on large distributions and discusses whether the benefits are genuinely
worth the considerable investment involved in their maintenance. Looking
ahead to a context of mature standards, pervasive virtualisation and
administrative decentralisation, is it time to embrace alternative
models in order to optimally enable a grid infrastructure?
| Presentation type (oral | poster) | oral |
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Primary authors
Dr
Oliver Keeble
(CERN)
Dr
markus schulz
(CERN)
