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AssigneeNortel Networks Limited
InventorsPhil Wang, Indermohan Monga, Tal Lavian, Ramesh Durairaj, Franco Travostino
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A Grid Proxy Architecture for Network Resources (GPAN) is proposed to allow Grid applications to access resources shared in communication network domains. GPAN bridges Grid services serving user applications and network services controlling network devices through its proxy functions such as resource data and management proxies. Working with Grid resource index and broker services, GPAN employs distributed network service peers (NSP) in network domains to discover, negotiate and allocate network resources such as bandwidth for Grid applications. An elected master NSP is the unique Grid node that runs GPAN and represents the whole network to share network resources to Grids without Grid involvement of network devices. GPAN provides the Grid Proxy service (GPS) to interface with Grid services and applications, and the Grid Delegation service (GDS) to interface with network services to utilize network resources. Resource-based XML messaging is employed for the GPAN proxy communication.
A computer program product for facilitating interaction between a grid network having a plurality of grid computing resources associated with a plurality of computing nodes and a communication network having a plurality of network communication resources associated with a plurality of network nodes, where the grid computing resources are interconnected by the network communication resources, comprising:
A method for facilitating interaction between a grid network having a plurality of grid computing resources and a communication network having a plurality of network communication resources, where the grid computing resources are interconnected by the network communication resources, comprising the steps of:
Apparatus that facilitates interaction between a grid network having a plurality of grid computing resources and a communication network having a plurality of network communication resources, where the grid computing resources are interconnected by the network communication resources, comprising:
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