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Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. SLA negotiation protocol defines a business relationship between consumer and provider and is thus a necessary part of any commercial Grid application. In the Grid environment, an SLA negotiation protocol for a workflow becomes complicated because of its structure which includes many dependent sub-jobs. The complex workflow model leads to several constraints compared to single jobs and requires advanced solutions. As a continuous effort in building a full system supporting SLAs for Grid workflows, this paper presents an SLA negotiation protocol for workflows and an initial system implementation.
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Quan, D.M., Kao, O. (2005). SLA Negotiation Protocol for Grid-Based Workflows. In: Yang, L.T., Rana, O.F., Di Martino, B., Dongarra, J. (eds) High Performance Computing and Communications. HPCC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3726. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557654_59
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