11/3/2014 Reading #2 Perguntas sobre o artigo: Physiology of the Grid 1) What is a grid service? 2) Why does a grid service need to be stateful and potentially transient? 3) Discuss the following assertive: "Yet the current paradigm for delivering QoS to applications via the vertical integration of platform-specific components and services just does not work in today’s distributed environment: the decomposition of monolithic IT infrastructures is not consistent with the delivery of QoS through vertical integration of services on a given platform." What do you understand from this sentence? 4) Describe the main mechanisms of the Globus toolkit. Reading #3 Perguntas sobre o artigo: What is the Grid 1) 2) 3) 4)