The Gridbus Project to Release Grid Service Broker (1.2 version) Software
SC 2004 Exhibit (Melbourne), Pittsburgh, USA, 10 November 2004
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The Grid Service Broker, developed as part of the Gridbus Project at the
University of Melbourne, mediates access to distributed resources by (a)
discovering suitable data sources for a given analysis scenario, (b)
suitable computational resources, (c) optimally mapping analysis jobs to
resources, (d) deploying and monitoring job execution on selected
resources, (e) accessing data from local or remote data source during job
execution and (f) collating and presenting results. The broker supports a
declarative and dynamic parametric programming model for creating grid
applications.

The Gridbus broker v1.2 supports the following middleware:
Globus 2.4.x,
Alchemi 0.8.0
UNICORE 4.1.0

The Gridbus Broker is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and
Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is
partially supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project
grant, Storage Technology and the University of Melbourne.

We are grateful to, and sincerely thank all the people who contributed to
the Gridbus Broker project.

What's New:
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- Economy support from ground-up including for scheduling jobs on data
grids
- Flexible XML based job input
- Support for Unicore(experimental)
- Improved support for Globus 2.4.x and Alchemi 0.8.0
- New command to enable copying files to/from a GSIFTP source
- GUI Monitoring tool
- Logging using log4j and expanded API documentation


Download information:
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The broker source code,binaries, documentation and manual can be
downloaded from http://www.gridbus.org/broker/


Contact Information:
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For further details about the Gridbus broker and/or the Gridbus project
please contact:
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (raj@...)
Srikumar Venugopal (srikumar@...)


Licenses and Disclaimer:
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The Gridbus broker and the GUI is distributed under the GNU General Public
License (GPL) (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).
Other libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their
own respective licenses which are also included.

This product includes software developed by and/or derived from the Globus
project (http://www.globus.org/). This product includes dom4j libraries
(http://www.dom4j.org)
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