To support supply chain coordination management model’s development and popularization, information platform must be able to integrate information resources in the supply chain and make them collaborate dynamically. Grid technologies and infrastructures support the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in dynamic, distributed virtual organizations. It’s regarded as the promising foun...

As grid systems are organizationally best represented by the virtual organization concept, mobile grids are reflected by mobile dynamic virtual organizations (MDVO). Mobile grids are assumed to leverage a next-generation business grid infrastructure targeting at service provisioning for mobile and nomadic users. Accordingly, commercial prospects of potential MDVO application fields need to be i...

This paper describes the development of an in silico virtual screening application on Taiwan Unigrid. In silico virtual screening is one of the most promising approach to accelerate the drug development process. This pilot application implementation demonstrates the power of grid, which provides reliable service via shared computing resources. This development illustrates not only a new collabo...

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 market...

Initial applications of the GriPhyN Chimera Virtual Data System have been performed within the context of CMS Production of Monte Carlo Simulated Data. The GriPhyN Chimera system consists of four primary components: 1) a Virtual Data Language, which is used to describe virtual data products, 2) a Virtual Data Catalog, which is used to store virtual data entries, 3) an Abstract Planner, which re...

Virtual laboratory MolDynGrid has been established for computational researches in structural biology and bioinformatics, especially for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biological macromolecules and their complexes. Biomolecular simulation usually requires a very high processing power and huge storage space for MD trajectories. In this study we describe the development of virtual laborat...

The paper presents various transparency issues that have to be considered during development of object-oriented Grid applications based on virtual repositories. Higher-level transparencies, such as location, heterogeneity, fragmentation, replication, redundancy, indexing and service provider transparency assure new information processing culture greatly supporting the development, operation and...

Virtual Organization Clusters (VOCs) provide a novel architecture for overlaying dedicated cluster systems on existing grid infrastructures. VOCs provide customized, homogeneous execution environments on a per-Virtual Organization basis, without the cost of physical cluster construction or the overhead of per-job containers. Administrative access and overlay network capabilities are granted to ...

The growing prominence of virtual organizations, such as Dell and Amazon.Com, has demonstrated the potential for virtual governance structures to achieve greater competitiveness than their more traditional counterparts. The designs of such organizations typically support three important characteristics: virtual customer interaction, virtual sourcing of complementary resources and assets from a ...

Article history: Received 16 July 2009 Received in revised form 5 April 2010 Accepted 26 April 2010