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The Role of Planning in Grid Computing

Overview Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of computing resources to solve large-scale tasks such as scientific computation. These tasks are defined as standalone components that can be combined to process the data in various ways. This paper explains the implementation of a planning system to generate task workflows for the Grid automatically, allowing the user to specify simply the desired data products. The planner uses heuristic control rules and searches a number of alternative complete plans in order to find a high-quality solution.

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Publisher	American Association for Artificial Intelligence	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2002	Downloads	11
Format	White Papers
Topics	High Performance Computing, Groupware - Workflow, Strategic Planning

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