The Testbed and Applications working group of the European Grid Forum (EGrid) is actively
building and experimenting with a grid infrastructure connecting several research-based …

The workload management task of the DataGrid project was mandated to define and implement
a suitable architecture for distributed scheduling and resource management in a Grid …

In the first phase of the European DataGrid project, the 'workload management' package (WP1)
implemented a working prototype, providing users with an environment allowing to …

Contemporary production grids do not usually offer the flexibility users are looking for. While
different user communities have often contradictory requirements on the operating system, …

Scalable and fine-grained Grid authorization requires moving away from a gridmapfile based
access control and 1-to-l mappings to individual OS user accounts. This is recognized and …

1 Abstract Keeping track of a job within a complex Grid environment is a difficult task that
cannot be easily delegated to inspection of data from Grid infrastructure monitoring. The job …

Job Provenance (JP), part of the gLite Grid middleware, is a service that keeps long‐term
trace on completed computations for further reference. It is a job‐centric service, keeping …

A short overview of Grid infrastructure status monitoring is given followed by a discussion of
key concepts for advanced status monitoring systems: passive information gathering based …

The Logging and Bookkeeping service tracks job passing through the Grid. It collects
important events generated by both the grid middleware components and applications, and …

The Job Provenance (JP) service is designed to automate keeping track of computations on
large scale Grids, giving thus users a tool to correctly archive information about their jobs …