•  BEinGRID Data Management Whitepaper

This paper presents the experience done by the main results achieved by the Data Management technical area of the BEinGRID project.

•  BEinGRID Security Observer Whitepaper

This paper presents the Security Observer, that is a component been envisioned to monitor various security properties in a Grid environment and to notify entities that compose it when a possible security flaw is detected.

• Energy-Efficient Scheduling of HPC Applications in Cloud Computing Environments

This paper analyzes energetic effects of cloud computing data centers and examines the way a provider can achieve optimal energy sustainability of running HPC workloads across its entire Cloud infrastructure.

• Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Inter-Cloud Computing
  

Whitepaper produced by the Global Inter-Coud Technology Forum where both quality requirements for inter-cloud computing and some use cases are presented. This document shows the needing of an inter-cloud computing environment in order to satisfy demands for guaranteed quality of service availability and performance, procuring resources from various cloud providers and avoiding vendor lock-in.

• A Note on the Integration of Security Capabilities with Advanced Portals

This whitepaper presents three business scenarios developed within BEinGRID project showing the benefits of integrating security capabilities and portals ones. The whitepaper isstrongly recommended to the adopters of the Security and Portal solutions developed in BEinGRID in order to understand the impact and business benefits of designing and developing a solution integrating both the results.

• BEinGRID Big Picture Whitepaper

This paper presents an overview of how the technical results achieved in the BEinGRID project can be combined to solve common problems in business scenarios.

• Architectural Overview of the SmartLM Innovative Licence Management System

This Whitepaper describes the architecture of the SmartLM solution for creating and managing a new type of software licenses. While SmartLM licenses have been designed with a focus on distributed computing infrastructures like Grids or Clouds the SmartLM solution leverages its benefits also in other computing environments based on for example resources of an application service provider, local workstations or clusters. 

•  BEinGRID License Management Whitepaper

This paper presents the Licence Management Architecture developed in the BEinGRID project. This solution overcomes the current lack of a grid solution for client-server based license management.

• ISONI Whitepaper

This whitepaper presents the Intelligent Service Oriented Network Infrastructure (ISONI), which comprises the core of the IRMOS Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer. 

• The IRMOS Application Blueprint

The IRMOS Application Blueprint serves as a reference guide for application developers. This document contains all the critical information that is needed in order for an application to be adapted on the IRMOS framework, a Service Oriented platform that allows both for interactivity but also for QoS guarantees across a virtualized infrastructure.

•  BEinGRID SLA Management Whitepaper

This paper reports the BEinGRID research results in designing and developing an integrated architecture for SLA management on top of GT4.

•  BEinGRID VO-Management Whitepaper

This paper presents the experience done by the VO Management technical area of the BEinGRID project during the analysis of concrete case studies in several business domains. Main results are described and presented together with the lessons learnt during our activities.

•  BEinGRID Enhanced Application Virtualisation Whitepaper

This paper presents the Enhanced Application Virtualisation capability which enables the management of the deployment, distribution, coordination and configuration of capabilities and resources required for offering applications distributed over a federated set of network hosts. It can be used to add an instrumentation layer and coordinate different service execution environments in order to enable the secure and manageable application exposure of remotely hosted (and potentially distributed) applications.

•  BEinGRID VO Set-up Component Whitepaper

This paper addresses Virtual Organization management in distributed systems. The Virtual Organization (VO) concept is a quite broad concept and encompasses various fields and contexts. A key feature of a VO is that it is established in a short time to dynamically respond to a collaboration opportunity (business or scientific) and its nature may be transient, i.e. its lifecycle may have a defined duration and may also be short. To ensure the achievement of the VO objectives, adequate VO management is required. The main challenges of VO management come directly from its key features and include the management of the VO lifecycle, the definition of agreements, policies and models to allow a secure and managed access to shared and distributed resources, services, information and knowledge. Challenges also include reliable and continuous performance monitoring (of members and resources).