Dynasoar

Speaker: Chris Fowler

Abstract

This talk will discuss work in progress in the Dynasoar project which is investigating an architecture for dynamically deploying Web Services, on-demand, over a grid or the Internet. This is an approach to grid computing in which there are no jobs, but only services. Rather than scheduling jobs, Dynasoar automatically deploys a service on an available host if no existing deployments can meet the computational requirements. The architecture makes a clear separation between Web Service Providers, who offer services to consumers, and Host Providers, who offer computational resources on which services can be deployed. The talk will describe the architecture, a prototype implementation, and the new usage models that it supports.