Virtual Machines and Types of Service for TeraGrid Computing Foundational capabilities we provide in TeraGrid, such as "roaming" access and a "coordinated" software environment, open new possibilities in terms of more specialized services, or to allow the TeraGrid, as a system, to respond to supply and demand. For example, a resource provider might elect to increase the "price" of a queue in order to improve turnaround time by reducing demand, or decrease the price to increase demand (and thus utilization).
OGF is an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. Applied Distributed Computing is critical to developing new, innovative and scalable applications and infrastructures that are essential to p