Special Issue: Grids and Web Services for e-Science

✍ Scribed by Tony Hey; Geoffrey Fox

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 91 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1532-0626
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.955

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This editorial describes four papers that summarize key Grid technology capabilities to support distributed e‐Science applications. These papers discuss the Condor system supporting computing communities, the OGSA‐DAI service interfaces for databases, the WS‐I+ Grid Service profile and finally WS‐GAF (the Web Service Grid Application Framework). We discuss the confluence of mainstream IT industry development and the very latest science and computer science research and urge the communities to reach consensus rapidly. Agreement on a set of core Web Service standards is essential to allow developers to build Grids and distributed business and science applications with some assurance that their investment will not be obviated by the changing Web Service frameworks. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.