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Summary
Summary
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 and an 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 mathematicians and IT policy makers.
Author Notes
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.
Table of Contents
Overview of the Book: Grid Computing - Making the Global Infrastructure a RealityF. Berman, et al. |
The Grid: Past, Present, FutureF. Berman, et al. |
The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century ScienceI. Foster |
The Evolution of the GridD. De Roure, et al. |
Software Infrastructure for the I-WAY High-prformance Distributed Computing ExperimentFoster, et al. |
Implementing Production GridsW. Johnston |
The Anatomy of the GridI. Foster, et al. |
Rationale for Choosing the Open Grid Services ArchitectureM. Atkinson |
The Physiology of the GridI. Foster, et al. |
Grid Web Services and Application FactoriesD. Gannon, et al. |
From Legion to Avaki: The Persistence of VisionA. Grimshaw, et al. |
Condor and the GridD. Thain, et al. |
Architecture of a Commercial Enterprise Desktop Grid: The Entropia SystemA. Chien |
Autonomic Computing and GridP. Pattnaik, et al. |
Databases and the GridP. Watson |
The Open Grid Services Architecture, and Data GridsP. Kunsz and L. Guy |
Virtualization Services for Data GridsR. Moore and C. Baru |
The Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science InfrastructureD. De Roure, et al. |
Peer-to-Peer GridsG. Fox, et al. |
Peer-to-Peer Grid Databases for Web Service DiscoveryW. Hoschek |
Overview ofGrid Computing EnvironmentsG. Fox, et al. |
Grid Programming Models:Current Tools, Issues and DirectionsC. Lee and D. Talia |
NaradaBrokering: An Event-based Infrastructure for Building Scalable Durable Peer-to-Peer GridsG. Fox and S. Pallickara |
Classifying and Enabling Grid ApplicationsG. Allen, et al. |
NetSolve: Past, Present, and Future - A Look at a Grid Enabled ServerS. Agrawal, et al. |
Ninf-G: a GridRPC System on the Globus ToolkitH. Nakada, et al. |
Commodity Grid Kits - Middleware for building Grid Computing EnvironmentsG. von Laszewski, et al. |
The Grid Portal Development KitJ. Novotny |
Building Grid Computing Portals: The NPACI Grid Portal ToolkitM. Thomas and J. Boisseau |
Unicore and the Open Grid Services ArchitectureD. Snelling |
Distributed Object-based Grid Computing EnvironmentsT. Haupt and M. Pierce |
DISCOVER:a ComputationalCollaboratory for Interactive Grid ApplicationsV. Mann and M. Parashar |
Grid Resource Allocation and Control using Computational EconomiesR. Wolski, et al. |
Parameter Sweeps on the Grid with APSTH. Casanova and F. Berman |
Storage Manager and File Transfer Web ServicesW. Watson, et al. |
Application Overview for the Book: Grid Computing - Making the Global Infrastructure a RealityF. Berman, et al. |
The Data Deluge: An e-Science PerspectiveT. Hey and A. Trefethen |
MetacomputingL. Smarr and C. Catlett |
Grids and the Virtual ObservatoryR. Williams |
Data-intensive Grids for High-energy PhysicsJ. Bunn and H. Newman |
The New Biology and the GridK. Baldridge and P. Bourne |
eDiamond: a Grid-enabled Federated Database of Annotated MammogramsM. Brady, et al. |
Combinatorial Chemistry and the GridJ. Frey, et al. |
Education and the Enterprise with the GridG. Fox |
Index |
Views of the Grid |
Indirect Glossary |
List of Grid Projects |