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Many advanced medical simulation applications are based on compute intensive numerical methods often exceeding the computational capacity available in hospitals and clinical centers. Addressing this issue, the EU Project GEMSS has developed a Grid infrastructure that supports the on-demand provision of medical simulation services running on remote parallel computers over the Internet. A flexible QoS infrastructure supporting dynamic negotiation of service level agreements and advance reservation of compute resources facilitates using Grid services for supporting time-critical clinical procedures. In this paper we present an overview of the GEMSS Grid infrastructure and outline the main issues involved in the provision of QoS-enabled Grid services and the negotiation of service level agreements for ensuring response time and price guarantees.
The work was supported by by the European Union’s GEMSS (Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Services) Project under contract IST 2001-37153 and by the Austrian Science Fund as part of the AURORA project under contract SFB F011-02.
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Benkner, S., Engelbrecht, G., Middleton, S.E., Surridge, M. (2007). Supporting SLA Negotiation for QoS-Enabled Simulation Services in a Medical Grid Environment. In: Kågström, B., Elmroth, E., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. PARA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_37
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