CROWN: A Service Grid Middleware for e-Science - Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications - page 2

CROWN: A Service Grid Middleware
for e-Science

Chunming Hu and Jinpeng Huai

CONTENTS
1.1 Background ...................................................................................... 4
1.2 CROWN Middleware ..................................................................... 5
1.2.1 Design Motivation ................................................................. 5
1.2.2 Architecture ........................................................................... 6
1.2.3 Components in CROWN ...................................................... 8
1.2.3.1 Node Server ............................................................. 8
1.2.3.2 Resource Locating and Description
Service (RLDS) ........................................................ 9
1.2.3.3 CROWN Scheduler ................................................. 9
1.2.3.4 CROWN CommSec ................................................ 9
1.2.3.5 CROWN AuthzService .......................................... 9
1.2.3.6 CROWN CredMan ................................................. 10
1.2.3.7 CROWN CredFed ................................................... 10
1.2.3.8 CROWN ATN .......................................................... 10
1.2.3.9 CROWN Portal and Rich Client Framework ...... 10
1.2.3.10 CROWN Designer .................................................. 10
1.2.3.11 CROWN Monitor .................................................... 10
1.2.4 Main Features ........................................................................ 11
1.2.4.1

Overlay-Based Distributed Resource
Management ............................................................ 12

1.2.4.2 Remote and Hot Deployment with

Trust (ROST) ............................................................ 12

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