Study on equipment interoperation chain model in grid environment

Abstract

Scientific collaboration has emerged as an important tool for getting forefront research results by interoperating geographically distributed scientific equipment to solve complicated scientific problems. Grid technologies offer effective strategies to achieve this ambitious goal. However, more capabilities are required in the context of Equipment Grid due to the complexity of collaboration between equipment resources. In this paper an interesting equipment interoperation chain model is proposed. Equipment resources are organized into equipment pools, based on which the interoperation chain of equipment is built. The performance is discussed by means of several theoretical tools like Petri Net and π-Calculus from the different viewpoint of users. The structure of interoperation chain is proven highly efficient and feasible. Finally we analyze the prospective direction and challenges in this field. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.