Towards an Open Grid Marketplace Framework for Resources Trade

A challenge of Grid computing is to provide automated support for the creation and exploitation of virtual organisations (VOs), involving individuals and different autonomous organizations, to which resources are pooled from potentially diverse origins. In the context of the presented work, virtual organizations trade grid resources and services according to economic models in electronic marketplaces. Thus in this paper we propose GRIMP (Grid Marketplace), a generic framework that provides services to support spontaneous creation of grid resources markets on demand. We motivate the need for such framework, present our design approach as well as the implementation and execution models.