A survey of resource discovery in computational grids
Hesham Ali, Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Mohammed Ahmed · The International Conference on Electrical Engineering/The International Conference on Electrical Engineering · 2012
Grid computing is a wide spread technology in recent years. It offers an effective way tobuild high-performance or high-throughput computing systems, allowing users toefficiently access and integrate geographically distributed computers, data, andapplications. Searching and locating the resource which match the user's requirements inan efficient and timely manner is the important phase in grid computing which calledresource discovery. Discovering resources in grid environment is complex due to theheterogeneous nature, dynamic availability of resources, resources are owned bydifferent individuals and organizations and each having their own resource managementpolicies i.e. different access and cost models. There are many different approaches inliterature for solving this problem (e.g. Centralized-based, Hierarchical-based, Agentbasedand P2P-based). This paper provides a survey and analysis on ongoing researchesas well as evaluation summery of those approaches on this specific area. We believe thatthis survey would be useful for academic and industry based researchers who areengaged in the design of scalable computational Grid.