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DHPC Technical Report DHPC-119

Simulating Resource Trading and Discovery in Grid Systems

H.A.James and K.A.Hawick

Published in Proc. IASTED Conf. on Modelling and Simulation (MS2003), Palm Springs, Feb 2003

Archived 9 September 2002.

Abstract

The global grid model is steadily being uptaken by individuals and services wishing to trade in grid services. The grid was originally driven by organisations attempting to share high performance computing resources but there are recent moves to apply the model to exchange of other services. It is important that an appropriate economic model be applied to the exchange of services if the global grid approach is to be applied beyond academia and free/share communities. We have built a simulation model of our prototype to investigate the buyer/seller and open market models of services. We are also experimenting with tightly-coupled value-add chains of services in a market economy that would scale to the size of the global grid.

Keywords: economics and management; grid systems; simulation model.

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