Abstract:
Grid computing is a wide spread technology in recent years. It offers an effective way to
build high-performance or high-throughput computing systems, allowing users to
efficiently access and integrate geographically distributed computers, data, and
applications. Searching and locating the resource which match the user's requirements in
an efficient and timely manner is the important phase in grid computing which called
resource discovery. Discovering resources in grid environment is complex due to the
heterogeneous nature, dynamic availability of resources, resources are owned by
different individuals and organizations and each having their own resource management
policies i.e. different access and cost models. There are many different approaches in
literature for solving this problem (e.g. Centralized-based, Hierarchical-based, Agentbased
and P2P-based). This paper provides a survey and analysis on ongoing researches
as well as evaluation summery of those approaches on this specific area. We believe that
this survey would be useful for academic and industry based researchers who are
engaged in the design of scalable computational Grid.