Grid Resource Discovery Based on Centralized and Hierarchical Architectures

Grid systems have gained remarkable importance in the last decade since resource requirements of recent applications increased drastically. Resource discovery in grid systems is a fundamental task which provides searching and locating necessary resources for given processes. There are many different approaches in literature for this problem. Grid resource discovery using centralized and hierarchical systems is a widely used approach which has resulted in many tools to become de facto standards of today’s grid resource management. In this paper, we propose a survey of recent grid resource discovery studies based on centralized and hierarchical systems. We provide synthesis, analysis and evaluation of these studies by classification. We also give a comparative study of different classes proposed.