1 Provisioning and Maintenance

1.1 History of Software Maintenance

1.1.1 Maintenance in Software Engineering

1.1.2 Dynamic Maintenance

1.2 Maintenance Provisioning

1.2.1 Server Provisioning

1.2.2 User Provisioning

1.3 Characteristics and Challenges

1.3.1 Provisioning Characteristics

1.3.2 Challenges

1.4 Distributed and Service-Oriented Dynamic Provisioning

1.4.1 Target System

1.4.2 Related Products

1.4.3 Related Standards

1.5 Summary

References

2 Grid and Distributed Systems

2.1 Fundamental Concepts

2.2 The Principles of Grids

2.2.1 Service-Oriented Architecture

2.2.2 Open Grid Service Architecture

2.3 Grid Middleware

2.3.1 Globus Toolkit

2.3.2 CGSP

2.3.3 gLite

2.3.4 UNICORE

2.3.5 ProActive

2.4 Dynamic Provisioning in Middleware

2.4.1 Provisioning of Middleware

2.4.2 Provisioning Using Middleware

2.5 ChinaGrid and Related Projects

2.5.1 CGSV

2.5.2 GPE4CGSP

2.5.3 Application Grids

2.6 Summary

References

3 Highly Available Dynamic Deployment Infrastructure

3.1 Motivation

3.2 Principle of Dynamic Deployment Infrastructure

3.2.1 Dynamic Deployer Core

3.2.2 Deploy Approach Manager

3.2.3 Service Package Manager

3.3 Service-Level vs.Container-Level

3.3.1 HAND-C：Container-Level Deployment

3.3.2 HAND-S：Service-Level Deployment

3.3.3 Service Dependency

3.3.4 Avoid Deadlock

3.3.5 Time Cost Analysis

3.4 Performance Analysis

3.4.1 Dynamic Deployment Experiments

3.4.2 Capability and Availability in Dynamic Environment

3.4.3 GAR File Transfer Performance

3.5 Summary

References

4 Service-Oriented Dependency-Aware Maintenance

4.1 Dependency-Aware Maintenance

4.2 Motivations

4.2.1 Concepts

4.2.2 Dependencies in a Grid

4.2.3 Maintaining Solution and Dependencies

4.2.4 Objectives

4.3 Definitions

4.4 Design of Cobweb Guardian

4.4.1 Architecture

4.4.2 Environment Dependency-Aware Maintenance in Three Granularities

4.4.3 Deployment Dependency-Aware Propagating Maintenance

4.4.4 Invocation Dependency-Aware Grouping Maintenance

4.4.5 Grouping Maintenance with Feedback

4.5 Evaluations

4.5.1 Test Environment

4.5.2 Deployment Dependency-Aware Propagation

4.5.3 Invocation Dependency-Aware Grouping

4.5.4 Environment Dependency-Aware Maintenance in Different Granularities

4.5.5 Evaluation for Dynamicity

4.6 Summary

References

5 Asynchronous Provisioning Strategy for Heterogeneous Grids

5.1 Motivation

5.2 Asynchronous Provisioning Model

5.2.1 Traditional Maintaining Solutions

5.2.2 Definitions for Asynchronous Maintenance

5.2.3 Specification

5.3 Maintenance Algorithms

5.3.1 The Virtual Maintainer

5.3.2 HAND Handler

5.4 Time Sequence Analysis

5.5 Characteristics Discussion

5.5.1 Transient Fault Tolerance

5.5.2 Archive Pending Tasks

5.5.3 Applicability

5.6 Correctness Proof

5.7 Evaluations

5.7.1 Environment Settings

5.7.2 Metrics

5.7.3 Applications

5.7.4 Overheads

5.7.5 Evaluations in Cluster and Grid

5.8 Summary

References

6 Orchestrating Provisioning among Heterogeneous Middleware

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Related Works

6.2.1 Interoperability

6.2.2 Dynamic Provisioning

6.2.3 Scheduling in a Distributed System

6.3 Orchestrating Model

6.3.1 Definitions

6.3.2 Optional Solutions for Resourceless Execution

6.3.3 Classic Formulation

6.4 Problem Formulation for Resourceless Orchestration

6.4.1 Constraints for Provisioning

6.4.2 Optimization Goal

6.5 Implementation of Orchestrator

6.6 Evaluations

6.6.1 Environment Setup

6.6.2 Application GridBean

6.6.3 Abbreviation

6.6.4 Running Applications Separately on Specific Middleware

6.6.5 Orchestration with Specific Demands

6.7 Summary

References

7 Implementation of Dynamic Provisioning with Community Services

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Implementation of Essential Components

7.2.1 Service Repository

7.2.2 Administration Console Client

7.2.3 Virtual Maintainer

7.2.4 Maintenance Workers

7.2.5 Dependency Probes

7.2.6 Working Flow

7.2.7 Lessons

7.3 Community Services that Apply the Dynamic Provisioning System

7.3.1 Bioinformatic Services

7.3.2 Image Processing Services

7.3.3 Massive Data Processing Services

7.3.4 CFD Grid

7.4 Summary

References

8 Conclusions and Future Challenges

8.1 Conclusions

8.2 Future Challenges

References

Glossary

Index