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The emergence of small, mobile, inexpensive computing platforms has made computation possible virtually anywhere, and has opened up countless opportunities for distributed and decentralized collaboration and information sharing among a wide range of actors. The software-intensive systems of today are increasingly shaped by their decentralized, resource-constrained, embedded, autonomic, and mobile (DREAM) computing environments. In this paper we present GridLite, a software architecture-based grid platform suitable for deployment in DREAM environments. Our prototype implementation of GridLite represents an effective and highly efficient marriage of our OODT data grid and Prism-MW architectural middleware solutions. The ultimate goal of GridLite is to extend the reach of the grid all the way to people’s “pockets”. Our initial experience suggests that this goal is achievable and worthy of further active pursuit.
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Mattmann, C.A., Medvidovic, N. (2007). The GridLite DREAM: Bringing the Grid to Your Pocket. In: Kordon, F., Sztipanovits, J. (eds) Reliable Systems on Unreliable Networked Platforms. Monterey Workshop 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71156-8_4
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