Prototype Design of Decision Supports for GRID Clearinghouse Service Framework

Grid Computing, as an emerging technology, facilitates computer resource sharing, distribution over the Internet. Large-scale collaboration and engineering development for GRID Computing has been engaged worldwide. The vigorous momentum of the technology has captured great business attention. The resources management in such large-scale distributed environment becomes a great challenge and will be the critical issue before GRID is deployed into commercial operation, while resource allocation and utilization need to be properly managed in realistic and economic justification. Though the concept of web-services and SOA has captured attention and efforts of industries, this kind of economic services is not addressed by the development of e-services.