Gridscape II: An extensible grid monitoring portal architecture and its integration with Google Maps

Abstract

A pervasive problem seen in information management is information fragmentation, where information may be fragmented by physical location, device or even by the various tools designed to help manage it. Coupled with the explosion of information we see today, identifying information that is really important to us becomes difficult. In areas such as Network and Grid system management, this problem hinders our ability to plan and make intelligent decisions. Grid computing is particularly affected due to the inherent difficulty in dealing with distributed heterogeneous resources over various administrative domains. In this paper we present Gridscape II, a customisable portal component that can b..