An Enterprise-Based Grid Resource Management System

As the Internet began its exponential growth into a global information environment, software was often unreliable, slow and had dif£culty in interoperating with other systems. Supercomputing node counts also continue to follow high growth trends. Supercomputer and grid resource management software must mature into a reliable computational platform in much the same way that web services matured for the Internet. DOGMA The Next Generation (DOGMA-NG) improves on current resource management approaches by using tested off-the-shelf enterprise technologies to build a robust, scalable, and extensible resource management platform. Distributed web service technologies constitute the core of DOGMA-NG’s design and provide fault tolerance and scalability. DOGMA-NG’s use of open standard web technologies and ef£cient management algorithms promises to reduce management time and accommodate the growing size of future supercomputers. The use of web technologies also provides the opportunity for a new parallel programming paradigm, enterprise web services parallel programming, that also gains bene£t from the scalable, robust component architecture.