OGSA Fundamental Services: Requirements for Commercial GRID Systems

This memo provides information to the Grid community about the fundamental services the authors believe are required for effective Grids in a commercial environment. Distribution is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright © Global Grid Forum (14 October 2002). All Rights Reserved. Widespread use of information technology, especially easy access to broadband networking technologies, is placing new requirements on the creation of commercial IT systems. IT systems have to provide innovative features while ensuring high performance and high availability under unpredictable workloads in an extremely heterogeneous and distributed environment. The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) defines an open, extensible, and comprehensive architecture, which can serve as a platform to address these tough requirements. Although there is some overlap, commercial IT systems are different from their scientific counterparts and, therefore, form one important Servic