Grid computing : iInfrastructure, service, and applications

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.

Chunming Hu and Jinpeng HuaiRuss Miller and Jonathan J. Bednasz and Kenneth Chiu and Steven M. Gallo and Madhu Govindaraju and Michael Lewis and Catherine L. Ruby and Charles M. WeeksErwin Laure and Bob JonesXuanhua Shi and Hai JinJia Yu and Rajkumar BuyyaAndrew Richards and Gillian M. SinclairZhou Lei and Zhifeng Yun and Gabrielle AllenLiang Chen and Wolfgang Emmerich and Bruno WassermannChi Yang and Jinjun ChenXiaorong Li and Subu Iyer and Henry PalitXiaoyu YangRichard O. SinnottVijay Sahota and Maozhen LiVincent Breton and Doman Kim and Giulio RastelliJames Broberg and Rajkumar BuyyaCong Vu and Prerak Shukla and Xian-He SunMassimo LamannaKe Pan and Stephen John Turner and Wentong Cai and Zengxiang Li

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xiii
Part I Grid Infrastructure and Middleware	p. 1
1 CROWN: A Service Grid Middleware for e-Science	p. 3
2 Cyberinfrastructure in New York State	p. 31
3 Enabling Grids for e-Science: The EGEE Project	p. 55
4 ChinaGrid and Related Dependability Research	p. 75
5 Gridbus Workflow Enactment Engine	p. 119
Part II Grid Services	p. 147
6 UK National Grid Service	p. 149
7 Grid Resource Allocation	p. 171
8 Grid Services Orchestration with OMII-BPEL	p. 191
9 A Data Stream View of Scientific Workflow	p. 223
10 Design of a Model-Based SLA Management Service and Its Applications over Distributed SOA Environments	p. 253
11 Portal and Workflow in Grid Computing: From Application Integration to Service Integration	p. 279
12 Grid Security	p. 307
13 Modeling P2P Grid Information Services with Colored Petri Nets	p. 335
Part III Grid Applications	p. 357
14 WISDOM: A Grid-Enabled Drug Discovery Initiative against Malaria	p. 359
15 Flow Networking in Grid Simulations	p. 389
16 Virtual Machines in Grid Environments: Dynamic Virtual Machines	p. 405
17 High-Energy Physics Applications on the Grid	p. 433
18 Design and Performance Evaluation of a Service-Oriented HLA RTI on the Grid	p. 459
Index	p. 483

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