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Description

The Grid is an emerging infrastructure that will fundamentally change the way we think about-and use-computing. The word Grid is used by analogy with the electric power grid, which provides pervasive access to electricity and has had a dramatic impact on human capabilities and society. Many believe that by allowing all components of our information technology infrastructure-computational capabilities, databases, sensors, and people-to be shared flexibly as true collaborative tools the Grid will have a similar transforming effect, allowing new classes of applications to emerge. -From the Preface In 1998, Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman introduced a whole new concept in computing with the first edition of this book. Today there is a broader and deeper understanding of the nature of the opportunities offered by Grid computing and the technologies needed to realize those opportunities. In Grid 2, the editors reveal the revolutionary impact of large-scale resource sharing and virtualization within science and industry, the intimate relationships between organization and resource sharing structures and the new technologies required to enable secure, reliable, and efficient resource sharing on large scale. Foster and Kesselman have once again assembled a team of experts to present an up-to-date view of Grids that reports on real experiences and explains the available technologies and new technologies emerging from labs, companies and standards bodies. Grid 2, like its predecessor, serves as a manifesto, design blueprint, user guide and research agenda for future Grid systems.

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

computing executives and strategists, system designers, technical professionals, academics, graduate students in distributed parallel computing and grid computing

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Part I: Perspectives Chapter 1 Grids in Context Chapter 2 The Scientific Imperative Chapter 3 The Industrial Imperative Part II: Framework Chapter 4 Concepts and Architecture Part III: Applications Chapter 5 Predictive Maintenance: Distributed Aircraft Engine Diagnostics Chapter 6 Distributed Telepresence: The NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory Chapter 7 Scientific Data Federation: The World Wide Telescope Chapter 8 Medical Data Federation: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network Chapter 9 Knowledge Integration: In silico Experiments in Bioinformatics Chapter 10 Distributed Data Analysis: Federated Computing for High Energy Physics Chapter 11 Massively Distributed Computing: Virtual Screening on a Desktop Grid Chapter 12 Enterprise Resource Management: Applications in Research and Industry Chapter 13 Interactivity with Scalability: Infrastructure for Multiplayer Games Chapter 14 Service Virtualization: Infrastructure and Applications Chapter 15 Group-Oriented Collaboration: The Access Grid Collaboration System Chapter 16 Collaborative Science: Astrophysics Requirements and Experiences Part IV: Architecture Chapter 17 The Open Grid Services Architecture Chapter 18 Resource and Service Management Chapter 19 Building Reliable Clients and Services Chapter 20 Instrumentation and Monitoring Chapter 21 Security for Virtual Organizations: Federating Trust and Policy Domains Part V Data and Knowledge Chapter 22 Data Access, Integration and Management Chapter 23 Enhancing Se

Details

No. of pages:
748
Language:
English
Copyright:
© 2004
Published:
Imprint:
Morgan Kaufmann
eBook ISBN:
9780080521534
Print ISBN:
9781558609334
Print ISBN:
9781493303809

About the editors

Ian Foster

Ian Foster is Senior Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he also leads the Distributed Systems Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His research concerns techniques, tools, and algorithms for high-performance distributed computing, parallel computing, and computational science. Foster led the research and development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases, and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America (a live experiment at the Supercomputing conference of 1995).

Affiliations and Expertise

Argonne National Laboratory

Carl Kesselman

Most recently Carl Kesselman received international recognition for GUSTO, the world’s first high-performance computational grid. GUSTO pushes the technological envelope by using high-speed networks and software to provide global access to advanced supercomputers and other devices.

Affiliations and Expertise

University of Southern California

Reviews

I am struck by the increased emphasis on applications---50% more pages and 4 times the number of chapters---than in the first edition. There is also more material on developing standards, policy, and management. These are true signs of a maturing technology. I hold firm that the Grid will have significant impact on more aspects and segments of IT than the designers originally conceived. The rich experiences in this book will convince the reader as well —Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard The "doing of science" s at an inflection point: Computation, collaboration, visualization and smart storage lie at the heart of what science in the 21st century requires. This extremely readable collection provides a detailed roadmap for creating a global platform that enables this transformation. Most fascinating, to me, is how the Grid creates a technical artifact around which the social practices of science will evolve. Cultures form around artifacts,which is why this book is so important. —John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), co-author of The Social Life of Information, HBSP 2000 The Grid, 2nd Edition, extends a vision and agenda for another decade. The Grid and web services technologies are enabling pioneering, distributed applications that begin to fulfil the vision. Eventually we"ll look back on the resulting standardization for interoperation as the real revolution. The standards and discipline will enable a new form of software construction, delivery, and even restructure the software industry. —Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Foster and Kesselman have done a great job in documenting the promises and challenges of GRIDs as they evolve fr
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