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Market Models for Grid Computing

网格计算的市场模型

基本信息

批准号：
EP/D061717/1
负责人：
Peter Harrison
金额：
$ 44.63万
依托单位：
Imperial College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2006 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD061717%2F1
关键词：
Market Models Grid Computing

项目摘要

Most researchers in Grid computing believe that computing services will, in the future, be provided similarly to telephone, electricity and other utilities today. In that case there will be a market with different Grid companies competing and co-operating to serve customers. Companies will have to set prices to attract customers and make profits. Governments that may choose to provide GRID services will similarly have to set prices, perhaps with a different aim of maximizing utilization. This area of Grid research has been highlighted as a key area of research in the EU report on next generation Grids. The development of the Grid has come to a stage where companies are beginning to sell Grid services. For instance, the BBC and The Register recently reported that both IBM and SUN are selling Grid access by the hour. Already a market exists where two companies compete for GRID customers. It will probably not take long until we see brokers (also called middlemen or suppliers to end-users in different environments) re-selling Grid services they bought in bulk from providers. This would constitute the usual 3-tier setup of markets seen, for instance, in the electricity market, where we have generators, suppliers and user.For the companies involved, who may wish to provide GRID access as an efficient alternative to buying computers, it is important to have a market model to be able to test various pricing schemes. This will become even more evident once futures and options for Grid access are sold. Future customers of this Grid market are expected to be banks, insurance and engineering companies, games companies, as well as universities and other research organisations. Although a great deal of effort has been aimed at modelling financial markets, much less is known about modelling commodity markets. Our research will enable companies and governmental agencies to evaluate different strategies and regulations to explore different market rules in a realistic fashion. By combining our experience of e-Science, modelling markets (see VR's CV) and computer performance, we will develop a realistic market model for Grid commodities. Nowadays, modelling markets and describing human behavior in economic systems is a very lively topic in statistical physics and econophysics, so our work is expected to also impact basic research in these fields. This proposal aims to produce a high-level market model for Grid computing. In contrast to previous research we propose to investigate, not the use of economic methods for the micro-management of future Grids, but rather how a future Grid-based economy can be modelled and predicted. This will bear some similarities and analogies to current structures in place for the airline, electricity and telephone industries, but will be specifically focussed on the needs and charcteristics unique to the Grid.

大多数网格计算研究人员认为，未来计算服务的提供方式将类似于今天的电话、电力和其他公用事业。在这种情况下，将会出现一个由不同电网公司竞争和合作来服务客户的市场。公司必须设定价格来吸引客户并赚取利润。可能选择提供 GRID 服务的政府同样必须设定价格，也许是为了最大限度地提高利用率。在欧盟关于下一代电网的报告中，电网研究的这一领域被强调为一个关键研究领域。网格的发展已经到了公司开始销售网格服务的阶段。例如，BBC 和 The Register 最近报道称，IBM 和 SUN 都在按小时销售网格访问。两家公司争夺 GRID 客户的市场已经存在。可能用不了多久，我们就会看到经纪人（在不同环境中也称为中间商或最终用户的供应商）转售他们从提供商处批量购买的网格服务。这将构成常见的三层市场设置，例如，在电力市场中，我们有发电机、供应商和用户。对于可能希望提供 GRID 访问作为购买计算机的有效替代方案的相关公司来说，拥有一个能够测试各种定价方案的市场模型非常重要。一旦出售电网接入的期货和期权，这一点将变得更加明显。该网格市场的未来客户预计将是银行、保险和工程公司、游戏公司以及大学和其他研究机构。尽管人们在金融市场建模方面付出了大量努力，但对商品市场建模却知之甚少。我们的研究将使公司和政府机构能够评估不同的策略和法规，以现实的方式探索不同的市场规则。通过结合我们在电子科学、市场建模（参见 VR 的简历）和计算机性能方面的经验，我们将为网格商品开发一个现实的市场模型。如今，对市场进行建模并描述经济系统中的人类行为是统计物理学和经济物理学中非常活跃的话题，因此我们的工作预计也会影响这些领域的基础研究。该提案旨在为网格计算创建一个高级市场模型。与之前的研究相比，我们建议研究的不是使用经济方法对未来网格进行微观管理，而是如何对未来基于网格的经济进行建模和预测。这将与航空、电力和电话行业当前的结构有一些相似之处和类比，但将特别关注电网独特的需求和特征。