World's first successful demonstration of dynamic reservation of resources for Grid computing

NTT, the Grid Technology Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. have successfully experimented on dynamic configuration of an information processing grid over a GMPLS based network. A grid utilizes a network according to request from the users by utilizing various kinds of resources. The laboratories collaborated for an information interface between a Grid Resource Scheduler (GRS) and Network Resource Management system (NRM). The GRS and NRM interworked to enable fully autonomous reservations of the optical paths required to establish the Grid in a GMPLS network environment.