SLA4D-Grid - Service Level Agreements for D-Grid

The project SLA4D-Grid will develop a Service Level Agreement (SLA) layer for D-Grid. This layer is placed between the D-Grid middleware (gLite, Globus, UNICORE) and the D-Grid user layer and will be integrated into the existing infrastructure. Communities will use the SLA services through corresponding clients or an application programming interface. The SLA layer is an added value without modifying the current D-Grid usage, i.e. communities without requirements for SLAs will not be affected at all, thus allowing for a smooth transition of the SLA4D-Grid results into operation.


Users, D-Grid communities, and D-Grid resource providers can use and offer resources under economic conditions through the SLA layer. Service demands that require a certain Quality of Service (QoS) are matched with corresponding offers by means of SLAs. SLAs will be automatically created, negotiated, and monitored by the SLA layer exploiting further D-Grid services such as Monitoring and Accounting. As a result both, academic and industrial users, can use D-Grid efficiently.


Partner
item Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany,
The contact person is Daniel Mallmann.
item Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
item con terra - Gesellschaft für Angewandte Informationstechnologie GmbH
item Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Steinbuch Centre for Computing
item Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Institut SCAI, Abteilung Bioinformatik
item Leibniz Universität Hannover, Regionales Rechenzentrum für Niedersachsen
item Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Informatik IV
item Sun Microsystems GmbH, Eco and Virtualization Services
item Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Fachbereich Komplexe und Verteilte IT-Systeme
item Technische Universität Dortmund, IT und Medien Centrum (Konsortialführer)
item Universität Stuttgart, Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart



Associated partners
item NEC Europe Ltd.


Duration
June 2009 until May 2012


More information
item SLA4D-Grid
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