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Towards Quality of Service Support for Grid Workflows

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Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005 (EGC 2005)

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Service-oriented workflow languages are being considered as a key programming paradigm for composing Grid applications from basic services. In this paper we present QoS support for grid workflows addressing the special requirements of time-critical Grid applications, as for example medical simulation services. QoS support for grid workflow is currently being developed in the context of the Vienna Grid Environment, a service-oriented Grid infrastructure for the provision of parallel simulation codes as QoS-aware Grid services, which are capable of dynamically negotiating with clients various QoS guarantees, e.g. with respect to execution time and price. We use a real world Grid service for medical image reconstruction to describe the main features of our approach and present the first prototype of a QoS-aware workflow engine which supports dynamic QoS negotiation and QoS-aware workflow execution.

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  1. Institute for Software Science, University of Vienna, Nordbergstrasse 15, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Ivona Brandic, Siegfried Benkner, Gerhard Engelbrecht & Rainer Schmidt

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Section of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098, Amsterdam, SJ, The Netherlands

    Peter M. A. Sloot

  2. Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

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  5. Institute of Computer Science, AGH, Poland

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Brandic, I., Benkner, S., Engelbrecht, G., Schmidt, R. (2005). Towards Quality of Service Support for Grid Workflows. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Priol, T., Reinefeld, A., Bubak, M. (eds) Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. EGC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508380_67

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