The Grid Lite DREAM: Bringing the Grid to Your Pocket

Abstract. The emergence of small, mobile, inexpensive computing plat-forms has made computation possible virtually anywhere, and has opened up countless opportunities for distributed and decentralized collabora-tion and information sharing among a wide range of actors. The software-intensive systems of today are increasingly shaped by their decentral-ized, resource-constrained, embedded, autonomic, and mobile (DREAM) computing environments. In this paper we present GridLite, a software architecture-based grid platform suitable for deployment in DREAM en-vironments. Our prototype implementation of GridLite represents an effective and highly efficient marriage of our OODT data grid and Prism-MW architectural middleware solutions. The ultimate goal of GridLite is to extend the reach of the grid all the way to people’s “pockets”. Our ini-tial experience suggests that this goal is achievable and worthy of further active pursuit.