
The Grid 2
Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
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Description
Key Features
- 30 chapters including more than a dozen completely new chapters
- Web access to 13 unchanged chapters from the first edition
- Three personal essays by influential thinkers on the significance of Grids from the perspectives of infrastructure, industry, and science
- A foundational overview of the central Grid concepts and architectural principles
- Twelve application vignettes showcase working Grids in science, engineering, industry, and commerce
- Detailed discussions of core architecture and services, data and knowledge management, and higher-level tools
- Focused presentations on production Grid deployment, computing platforms, peer-to-peer technologies, and network infrastructures
- Extensive bibliography and glossary
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I: Perspectives
1. Grids in Context
2. The Scientific Imperative
3. The Industrial ImperativePart II: Framework
4. Concepts and ArchitecturePart III: Applications
5. Predictive Maintenance: Distributed Aircraft Engine Diagnostics
6. Distributed Telepresence: The NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory
7. Scientific Data Federation: The World Wide Telescope
8. Medical Data Federation: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network
9. Knowledge Integration: In silico Experiments in Bioinformatics
10. Distributed Data Analysis: Federated Computing for High Energy Physics
11. Massively Distributed Computing: Virtual Screening on a Desktop Grid
12. Enterprise Resource Management: Applications in Research and Industry
13. Interactivity with Scalability: Infrastructure for Multiplayer Games
14. Service Virtualization: Infrastructure and Applications
15. Group-Oriented Collaboration: The Access Grid Collaboration System
16. Collaborative Science: Astrophysics Requirements and ExperiencesPart IV: Architecture
17. The Open Grid Services Architecture
18. Resource and Service Management
19. Building Reliable Clients and Services
20. Instrumentation and Monitoring
21. Security for Virtual Organizations: Federating Trust and Policy DomainsPart V Data and Knowledge
22. Data Access, Integration and Management
23. Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and SemanticsPart VI: Tools
24. Application-Level tools
25. Languages, Compilers, and Runtime System
26. Application Tuning and AdaptationPart VII: Infrastructure
27. Production Deployment: Experiences and Recommendations
28. Computing Elements
29. Peer-to-Peer Technologies
30. Network Infrastructure
31. Bibliography
Product details
- No. of pages: 776
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2003
- Published: November 18, 2003
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781558609334
- eBook ISBN: 9780080521534