Dear All:

We have initiated a new project, called "InterGrid", which aims at
developing "Peering Architecture and Policies for Internetworking
Disparate Grids". A high level summary of the project aims is given below:
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Summary: Grid computing enables the creation of Cyberinfrastructure for
e-Science and e-Business applications. Several nations around the world
including Australia have developed their own national Grids based on the
notion of virtual organisations. These dispersed Grid initiatives have
resulted in islands of Grids without any support for peering
arrangements between them. This limitation will impede realisation of
full potential of the Grid computing paradigm. This InterGrid project
aims to revolutionise Grid computing by investigating and developing (a)
architectural principles for interlinking Grids, (b) mechanisms for
resource provisioning and allocation within and across Grids and (c)
peering policies and algorithms for inter-Grid resource management.
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As you can see this InterGrid project is highly ambitious, a single
research group like ours cannot solve all research challenges.
Therefore, we developed a detailed research agenda with the aim of
sharing it with international community of researchers interested in
pursing this new research area with in Grid computing. An article
describing InterGrid research agenda can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/papers/InterGrid.pdf

It will be great to hear from those of you interested in pursuing some
of the research challenges identified in this research agenda.

Best regards
Raj