An Integration Architecture for Grid Resources

The growing demand of e-business and development of Grid technologies increasingly drive to integrate heterogeneous Grid resources in uniform way. However, this can not be satisfied by existing integration schemes. And at the time of writing, little efforts have been done. This paper proposes a Grid service integration architecture, which is based on the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), for addressing how various Gird resources are integrated into a virtual Grid application in the service-oriented approach. The architecture can integrate extremely heterogeneous Grid resources in “Plug and Play” way and provides abilities to handle transaction, workflow and accounting. The agent simplifies use of Grid resources because it shields user from complex process. Moreover, the paper discusses implementation of the architecture.