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Keywords:

  • Grid computing;
  • portal;
  • business model

Abstract

One of the greatest evolutions brought about by Grid technology is ‘Grid utility computing’, which utilizes various kinds of IT resources and applications across multiple organizations and enterprises, and integrates them into a comprehensive and valuable service. Since 2004, we proposed and have been developing the GridASP framework, which realizes Grid-enabled application service providers (ASPs) in order to realize Grid utility computing. GridASP can bind application providers, resource providers, and service providers together and provide application execution services with security and anonymity to enterprise/science users. In this article, we report the conceptual idea of GridASP and the detail of the framework now being developed. Information on GridASP can be found at http://www.gridasp.org. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.