| Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications Contributor(s): Wang, Lizhe (Author), Jie, Wei (Author), Chen, Jinjun (Author) |
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ISBN: 1420067664 ISBN-13: 9781420067668 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: The field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the last few years, developing and evolving in almost all key areas. A comprehensive discussion of recent advances in grid computing, this book summarizes the concepts, methods, technologies, and applications. Unlike other recent books on the subject that deal only with parts of grid computing, this one covers the entire field. With chapters based on the recent research of grid experts, it covers important topics such as philosophy, middleware, architecture, services, and applications. It also includes technical details to demonstrate how grid computing works in the real world and contains large number of references and technical reports. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Engineering - Computers | Client-server Computing - General - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
| Dewey: 004.36 |
| LCCN: 2009003681 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (2.10 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Identifies Recent Technological Developments Worldwide The field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the past few years, evolving and developing in almost all areas, including concepts, philosophy, methodology, and usages. Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications reflects the recent advances in this field, covering the research aspects that involve infrastructure, middleware, architecture, services, and applications. Grid Systems Across the Globe The first section of the book focuses on infrastructure and middleware and presents several national and international grid systems. The text highlights China Research and Development environment Over Wide-area Network (CROWN), several ongoing cyberinfrastructure efforts in New York State, and Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), which is co-funded by the European Commission and the world's largest multidisciplinary grid infrastructure today. The second part of the book discusses recent grid service advances. The authors examine the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the concept of resource allocation in a grid environment, OMIIBPEL, and the possibility of treating scientific workflow issues using techniques from the data stream community. The book describes an SLA model, reviews portal and workflow technologies, presents an overview of PKIs and their limitations, and introduces PIndex, a peer-to-peer model for grid information services. New Projects and Initiatives The third section includes an analysis of innovative grid applications. Topics covered include the WISDOM initiative, incorporating flow-level networking models into grid simulators, system-level virtualization, grid usage in the high-energy physics environment in the LHC project, and the Service Oriented HLA RTI (SOHR) framework. With a comprehensive summary of past advances, this text is a window into the future of this nascent technology, forging a path for the next generation of cyberinfrastructure developers. |