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What is Super Peer

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
A model in peer to peer systems, where a node in the system represents a collection of independent peers which interact with the larger system through a centralized node. This peer is termed as the super peer.
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On the Pervasive Adoption of Grid Technologies: A Grid Operating System
Irfan Habib (University of the West of England, UK), Ashiq Anjum (University of the West of England, UK), and Richard McClatchey (University of the West of England, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch016
Abstract
Due to some barriers to adoption we have not seen a proliferation of Grid Computing technologies throughout e-Science or other domains. This chapter outlines many issues that are a consequence to the existing Grid Middleware based approaches. The authors believe a Grid Operating system, or an operating system with built in Grid computing capability might be able to address the drawbacks of the existing infrastructure, leading to a fault tolerant, flexible and easy to use stack for rapid deployment of Grids. This chapter presents the motivation and issues which lead us to a Grid operating System and outline its design, implementation and evaluation details.
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