Grid Economics and Business Models

The Grid computing concept, which allows users to integrate administratively and g- graphically dispersed computing resources, has been gaining traction in a number of application areas during the past few years. By interconnecting many heterogeneous, though usually virtualized computing resources, virtual computer centers or superc- puters can be created, providing a seamless supply of computing resources. Grid comp- ing provides benefits not only for scientific computing (e.g., SETI@home, which interconnects one million computers across 226 countries with a total processing power of 711 TFLOPS) but also in a commercial environment. It is projected that computing Grids can lower the total IT costs of businesses by 30%. The report Grid Computing: A Vertical Market Perspective 20052010 (by The Insight Research Corporation) estimates an increase of worldwide Grid spending from $714.9 million in 2005 to approximately $19.2 billion in 2010. One of the most prominent activities in academia is the EGEE project being funded with 30 MEuro by the European Commission. EGEE brings together researchers from over 27 countries with the common aim of developing a service Grid infrastructure, which is suited for scientific computing with very high demand for processing power.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, GECON 2008, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 2008.

The 10 full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 27 submission. They aim at presenting current results and innovative research in the area of grid economics. The papers are organized in topical sections on grid business modeling, market mechanisms for the grid, grid markets, and grid architectures.

The proceedings are rounded off by 9 project reports that give an overview of the current and ongoing research in grid economics.

Inhalt
Grid Business Modeling.- Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets.- Business Relationships in Grid Workflows.- Market Mechanisms for the Grid.- The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets.- Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources.- Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning.- Grid Markets.- Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids.- The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the Software-as-a-Service Business Model.- Grid Architectures.- On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System.- Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements.- Research Projects on Business Modeling.- BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry.- Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- BREIN, Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business.- Research Projects on Market Mechanisms.- SORMA Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation.- GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources.- Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids.- Research Projects on Grid Architecture.- The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments.- The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview.- AssessGrid Strategies for Provider Ranking Mechanisms in RiskAware Grid Systems.