Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure (eBook)

Preface 5
Contents 8
Contributors 11
Remote Instrumentation Services 16
Design and Evaluation of a RESTful API for Controlling and Monitoring Heterogeneous Devices 17
Parametric Jobs – Facilitation of Instrument Elements Usage In Grid Applications 28
The Grid as a Software Application Provider in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility 45
Support of Grid Functionalities 52
An Optimized Architecture for Supporting Data Streaming in Interactive Grids 53
EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids 70
Management Challenges of Automated Service Level Agreements 81
Storage and Analysis Infrastructure for Data Acquisition Systems with High Data Rates 93
GridWalker: A Visual Tool for Supporting Advanced Discovery of Grid Resources 111
A Bio-Inspired Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Environments 120
Networking 136
Topology Design of a Service Overlay Network for e- Science Applications 137
BitTorrent for Storage and File Transfer in Grid Environments 154
Context Awareness in Autonomic Heterogeneous Environments 168
Enabling e-Infrastructures in Italy Through the GARR Network 184
Academic MANs and PIONIER – Polish Road to e- Infrastructure for e- Science 198
Applications in User Communities 211
The Impact of Global High-Speed Networks on Radio Astronomy 212
Observatory Middleware Framework (OMF) 233
Analysis and Optimization of Performance Characteristics for MPI Parallel Scientific Applications on the Grid ( A Case Study for the OPATM- BFM Simulation Application) 242
Network-Centric Earthquake Engineering Simulations 255
A Grid Approach for Calibrating and Comparing Microscopic Road Traffic Models 270
Learning Environments 281
Networking Resources for Research and Scientific Education in BW- eLabs 282
“The SIP Pod” – A VoIP Student Lab/ Playground 300
Index 312