Fault tolerant grid registry

Abstract

Development of tools that assist efficient computing in a distributed environment is a challenging problem in modern and future Grid systems. A registry that aids searching for information about existing components of distributed applications belongs to this class of tools. This work presents the Grid Registry, which is a distributed, scalable and fault-tolerant facility that stores information about structure and semantics of Grid/Web services. A set of performance tests that present the behavior of the registry are also described.