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EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb

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Desktop Grids, such as XtremWeb and BOINC, and Service Grids, such as EGEE, are two different approaches for science communities to gather computing power from a large number of computing resources. Nevertheless, little work has been done to combine these two Grid technologies in order to establish a seamless and vast Grid resource pool. In this paper we present the EGEE Service Grid, the BOINC and XtremWeb Desktop Grids. Then, we present the EDGeS solution to bridge the EGEE Service Grid with the BOINC and XtremWeb Desktop Grids.

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  1. LAL, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Bld 200, 91898, Orsay, France

    Etienne Urbah, Oleg Lodygensky & Gabriel Caillat

  2. MTA SZTAKI, LPDS, Kende u. 13–17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    Peter Kacsuk, Zoltan Farkas, Gabor Kecskemeti, Attila Marosi, Zoltan Balaton, Gabor Gombas, Adam Kornafeld, Jozsef Kovacs & Robert Lovas

  3. INRIA Saclay, LRI, Bat 490, 91400, Orsay, France

    Gilles Fedak & Haiwu He

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Urbah, E., Kacsuk, P., Farkas, Z. et al. EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb. J Grid Computing 7, 335–354 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0

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