Link Cross-Testbed experimentation. Multiple closed distributed systems that run in parallel can offer unique resources such as access to specific scientific equipment. One can imagine a physics researcher will- ing to provide access to their Beowulf cluster [16] but wishing to consume resources produced by data collec- tors at a CERN [17] on a completely separate network. Linked market-based mechanisms could be used to quantify the value of the cluster time sold in one network and the value of a CERN resource purchased in another network in a manner similar to how real economies are linked through a a currency exchange. Ongoing research into exchange mechanisms for computational systems could make this vision.
