Anthony J. G. Hey, Geoffrey Fox, Fran Berman

Grid Computing

Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality
Herausgeber: Berman, Fran; Hey, Anthony J G; Fox, Geoffrey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grid computing is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time

Grid computing appears to be a promising trend for three reasons:
(1) Its ability to make more cost-effective use of a given amount of computer resources,
(2) As a way to solve problems that can't be approached without an enormous amount of computing power
(3) Because it suggests that the resources of many computers can be cooperatively and perhaps synergistically harnessed and managed as a collaboration toward a common objective.

A number of corporations, professional groups, university consortiums, and other groups have developed or are developing frameworks and software for managing grid computing projects. The European Community (EU) is sponsoring a project for a grid for high-energy physics, earth observation, and biology applications. In the United States, the National Technology Grid is prototyping a computational grid for infrastructure andan access grid for people. Sun Microsystems offers Grid Engine software. Described as a distributed resource management tool, Grid Engine allows engineers at companies like Sony and Synopsys to pool the computer cycles on up to 80 workstations at a time.
_ "the Grid" is a very hot topic generating broad interest from research and industry (e.g. IBM, Platform, Avaki, Entropia, Sun, HP)
_ Grid architecture enables very popular e-Science projects like the Genome project which demand global interaction and networking
_ In recent surveys over 50% of Chief Information Officers are expected to use Grid technology this year
Grid Computing:
_ Features contributions from the major players in the field
_ Covers all aspects of grid technology from motivation to applications
_ Provides an extensive state-of-the-art guide in grid computing

This is essential reading for researchers in Computing and Engineering, physicists, statisticians, engineers and mathematiciansand IT policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Series in Communications Networking & Distributed Systems
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1060
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 172mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1915g
• ISBN-13: 9780470853191
• ISBN-10: 0470853190
• Artikelnr.: 11741638

Autorenporträt

Francine Berman is an American computer scientist, and a leader in digital data preservation and cyber-infrastructure. Geoffrey Fox is the editor of Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, published by Wiley. Anthony J. G. Hey is the editor of Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview of the Book: Grid Computing - Making the Global Infrastructure a
Reality (F. Berman, et al.). The Grid: Past, Present, Future (F. Berman, et
al.). The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science (I. Foster).
The Evolution of the Grid (D. De Roure, et al.). Software Infrastructure
for the I-WAY High-prformance Distributed Computing Experiment (Foster, et
al.). Implementing Production Grids (W. Johnston). The Anatomy of the Grid
(I. Foster, et al.). Rationale for Choosing the Open Grid Services
Architecture (M. Atkinson). The Physiology of the Grid (I. Foster, et al.).
Grid Web Services and Application Factories (D. Gannon, et al.). From
Legion to Avaki: The Persistence of Vision (A. Grimshaw, et al.). Condor
and the Grid (D. Thain, et al.). Architecture of a Commercial Enterprise
Desktop Grid: The Entropia System (A. Chien). Autonomic Computing and Grid
(P. Pattnaik, et al.). Databases and the Grid (P. Watson). The Open Grid
Services Architecture, and Data Grids (P. Kunszt & L. Guy). Virtualization
Services for Data Grids (R. Moore & C. Baru). The Semantic Grid: A Future
e-Science Infrastructure (D. De Roure, et al.). Peer-to-Peer Grids (G. Fox,
et al.). Peer-to-Peer Grid Databases for Web Service Discovery (W.
Hoschek). Overview of Grid Computing Environments (G. Fox, et al.). Grid
Programming Models: Current Tools, Issues and Directions (C. Lee & D.
Talia). NaradaBrokering: An Event-based Infrastructure for Building
Scalable Durable Peer-to-Peer Grids (G. Fox & S. Pallickara). Classifying
and Enabling Grid Applications (G. Allen, et al.). NetSolve: Past, Present,
and Future - A Look at a Grid Enabled Server (S. Agrawal, et al.). Ninf-G:
a GridRPC System on the Globus Toolkit (H. Nakada, et al.). Commodity Grid
Kits - Middleware for building Grid Computing Environments (G. von
Laszewski, et al.). The Grid Portal Development Kit (J. Novotny). Building
Grid Computing Portals: The NPACI Grid Portal Toolkit (M. Thomas & J.
Boisseau). Unicore and the Open Grid Services Architecture (D. Snelling).
Distributed Object-based Grid Computing Environments (T. Haupt & M.
Pierce). DISCOVER: a Computational Collaboratory for Interactive Grid
Applications (V. Mann & M. Parashar). Grid Resource Allocation and Control
using Computational Economies (R. Wolski, et al.). Parameter Sweeps on the
Grid with APST (H. Casanova & F. Berman). Storage Manager and File Transfer
Web Services (W. Watson, et al.). Application Overview for the Book: Grid
Computing - Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality (F. Berman, et al.).
The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective (T. Hey & A. Trefethen).
Metacomputing (L. Smarr & C. Catlett). Grids and the Virtual Observatory
(R. Williams). Data-intensive Grids for High-energy Physics (J. Bunn & H.
Newman). The New Biology and the Grid (K. Baldridge & P. Bourne). eDiamond:
a Grid-enabled Federated Database of Annotated Mammograms (M. Brady, et
al.). Combinatorial Chemistry and the Grid (J. Frey, et al.). Education and
the Enterprise with the Grid (G. Fox). Index. Views of the Grid. Indirect
Glossary. List of Grid Projects.

Rezensionen

"...a very good understanding of how the experts are approaching various problems around in the grid realm, and what the solutions are." ( Computing Reviews.com , February 14, 2005)