Key Concepts and Services of a Grid Information Service
Beth Plale, Peter A. Dinda, Gregor von Laszewski · 2002
The term "Grid" has become common parlance among parallel and distributed computer scientists to denote a middleware infrastructure for wide-area scientific and engineering computing. The discussion of standards and best practices is ongoing in the Grid Forum community to identify key pieces of the middleware infrastructure. One of the areas under discussion is different models for grid information services.