Michael Ernst: Federating Grid Resources                                                    

                                                                                             
Abstract:                                                                                    
There has been considerable confusion about the meaning and ramifications                    
of federated grids.   For the purposes of this talk, I refer to federated                    
grid resources as a cooperating group of computing facilities and a                          
federated grid as the combination of those federated resources.   There                      
has been the claim that federating grid resources overly complicates                         
development.  There has also been a lot of discussion about the                              
appropriate time, if ever, to start considering forming grid federations.                    
The talk is about one definition about what it means to form a federated                     
grid and an argument that the time to start forming grid federations is                      
now during the grid development period.