Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne,
Australia, I am pleased to inform you that we have released the
first version of Grid service publication directory, called
the Grid Market Directory (GMD). The GMD software, implemented
using Webservices technologies, has been demonstrated at the
SC 2002 conference, Baltimore, USA.

The GMD software components include:

* GMD Portal Manager:
It is responsible for Web browser requests and generates web
pages dynamically. The GMD Portal Manager is built on a web server.
* GMD Query Web-services:
It provides web-service access to the directory. Consumer's program can
query GMD by using Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP).
* GMD Repository
It is a database for service info.
* GMD Query client APIs:
Those APIs can be integrated with consumers programs; the developers
of the such program only need to invoke the APIs directly without
concerning presentation and transport layer technologies, such as SOAP and
XML.

The clients can invoke GMD services as a webservice.

To test usefulness of thge GMD services, Srikumar Venugopal, one of the
Gridbus project members, has used GMD web service within an Application
Service-Cost based Grid scheduler for identifying service cost and type of
resource/services.

All components developed as part of the Gridbus Project are released as
"open source" under the GPL license to encourage innovation and pass full
freedom to our users.

The contributors to the GMD software are:
* Rajkumar Buyya, GRIDS Lab @ University of Melbourne
* Jia Yu, GRIDS Lab @ University of Melbourne

For further information and pointer for downloading the GMD software,
pls visit the Gridbus Project website:
http://www.gridbus.org/gmd

Feel free to contact GMD developers if you need any specific clarification.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Best wishes
Raj

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Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street,
Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 1350 (office); +61-3-9571 3629 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-801-720-9272
Email: rajkumar@... | raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj
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