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In grid environment, how to organize, discover and use grid resources is one of the basic research problems. In this paper, we introduce a new concept called agora, which refers grid community in our Vega grid project. We propose a principle on agora as one of the basic design principles of Vega grid, which is the community principle. We give a detailed definition of the agora as a 4-tuple(S, O, C, P), representing the set of Subject, Object, Context, and Policy respectively. Our research methodology is comparative studies, drawing an analog between the grid and other platform systems such as OS, CPU, and MPI. We also study some properties about the agora, for example, grid law of inertia. This agora approach could be used to unify the grid invariability and dynamic variability effectively, develop the appropriate technology to support the dynamic and open properties of the grid, and deal with the complexity in the grid more efficiently.
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Wang, H., Xu, Z., Gong, Y., Li, W. (2004). Agora: Grid Community in Vega Grid. In: Li, M., Sun, XH., Deng, Qn., Ni, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing. GCC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24679-4_120
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