Cyberinfrastructure in New York State - Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications - page 29

Cyberinfrastructure in New York State
Russ Miller, Jonathan J. Bednasz, Kenneth Chiu,
Steven M. Gallo, Madhu Govindaraju, Michael Lewis,
Catherine L. Ruby, and Charles M. Weeks
CONTENTS
2.1 Introduction .................................................................................... 32
2.2 Cyberinfrastructure in Buffalo .................................................... 33
2.2.1 New York State Grid ............................................................ 33
2.2.2 Middleware Efforts................................................................ 35
2.2.2.1 Grid Portal and Grid-Enabling Application
Templates .................................................................. 35
2.2.2.2 Grid Monitoring and the Operations
Dashboard ................................................................ 40
2.2.2.3 An Integrated Data and Computational Grid ..... 42
2.2.2.4 Intelligent Grid Scheduling ................................... 42
2.3 Cyberinfrastructure in Binghamton ........................................... 42
2.3.1 Optimizing Web and Grid Services .................................. 43
2.3.2 Optimizing SOAP ................................................................ 43
2.3.3 Binary XML ........................................................................... 44
2.3.4 Uniform Dynamic Service Deployment ........................... 44
2.3.5 Benchmarking SOAP and XML ......................................... 45
2.3.6 Component-Based Grid Computing ................................. 45
2.3.7 Grid-Enabled Instruments and Sensor Networks ........... 46
2.3.8 Grid Emulation Framework for Multicore Processors .... 46
2.3.9 Protected Grid Data Transfer ............................................. 47
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