Web Site of the CIM based Grid Schema Working Group (CGS WG)

The DMTF CIM is one of the approaches in the industry for enabling the management of real world managed objects that applies the basic structuring and conceptualization techniques of the object-oriented paradigm. CIM is capable of defining all real world managed objects that occur in computer and network environments. CIM consists of a specification that describes a modeling language and syntax for defining real world managed objects, a management schema for real world managed objects, a protocol that encapsulates CIM syntax and schema to provide access to those real world managed objects, and a compliance document for interoperability between vendor implmentations. CIM has cross-platform and cross-vendor support. There are mappings for the CIM definitions to XML and LDAP, which both are core technologies in the frame of Grid computing. There are trends in the OGSA initiative to use CIM.

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