DGRID OS – AN APPROACH TO GRID ENABLED OPERATING SYSTEM

Abstract

This work is about the realization of a modern operating system with grid services as an integral part of it. In recent time the dominating species of distributed computing is Grid Computing, and till now this grid computing has been enabled through the use of middleware toolkits. As the most frequent machine interacting system calls are bundled together to make the kernel of operating system, so as the more frequently used functions are bundled together in set of modules which can easily be integrated to the operating system kernel even at runtime. In this process the grid services which enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of wide variety of geographically distributed resources can be integrated together inside the kernel of operating system as a module. In the last few years, a number of exciting projects like Globus, Legion, and UNICORE developed the software infrastructure needed for grid computing. However, operating system support for grid computing is min...