Technical Whitepapers
This section is dedicated to technical whitepapers which are related to new trends and solutions in software and services within various scientific and technical fields, including – but not limited to :
- Service Oriented Architectures,
- Cloud and Grid Computing,
- Software as a Service,
- Virtualization.
These whitepapers present overall technical solutions within these fields at infrastructure, architecture and application level, as well as innovative research findings and implemented solutions on specific areas, including Service Levels Agreement Management, Security, Portals, Data Management and License Management among others.
Service Oriented Infrastructure
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 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.
Security and Portals integration
This whitepaper presents three business scenarios 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 Technical Activities
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.
VO-Management
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.
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.
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).
License Management
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.
General Security
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.
SLA Management
This paper reports the BEinGRID research results in designing and developing an integrated architecture for SLA management on top of GT4.
Data Management
This paper presents the experience done by the main results achieved by the Data Management technical area of the BEinGRID project.
Portals
This paper presents a set of business scenarios to show the benefits and impact of the capabilities and software components developed by the BEinGRID Portal area.
Grid Portls solutions - Security
This whitepaper presents the Portals Security solution designed and developed within the Grid Portals technical area of the BEinGRID project.
Grid Portal solutions - User Management
This whitepaper presents the User Management solution designed and developed within the Grid Portals technical area of the BEinGRID project.
Grid Portal solutions - File Management
This whitepaper presents the File Management solution designed and developed within the Grid Portals technical area of the BEinGRID project.
Grid Portal solutions – Job Submission Monitoring and Control
This whitepaper presents the Job Submission Monitoring and Control solution designed and developed within the Grid Portals technical area of the BEinGRID project.
SOI-Compliant Portal for HPC Job Submission, Monitoring and Control [external content from http://www.univaud.com/]
Middleware related Whitepapers
This paper presents the experience done by the SLA thematic area in improving GT4 services to allow receiving WS-Notification. It is targeted to developers willing to learn how this issue has been addressed inside BEinGRID.
e-Infrastructures
This document gives details of the 2009 e-IRG Recommendations which cover global collaboration, education and training in the use of e-Infrastructure, grid and cloud computing, security, service centric e-infrastructures through virtualisation, remote instrumentation, and sustainability of computing-related e-Infrastructure.
Standardisation
An effective EU ICT standardisation policy can encourage the faster uptake of new technologies and applications thereby contributing to the competitiveness of the European economy as a whole. This white paper examines how to achieve a modern ICT standardisation policy
Cloud Computing General
- Application Architecture for Cloud Computing
Designing an application to run as a virtual appliance in a cloud computing environment is very different than designing it for an on-premise or SaaS deployment. This articles discusses some of the key aspects for developers.









