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Grid
Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide
by Pawel Plaszczak and Rich Wellner
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
ISBN: 0127425039 |
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This non-technical book on technical
matters answers key questions on Grid computing in business
terms.
• What really are grids? What is Grid technology?
• What are the business benefits of Grid-enabling the
infrastructure?
• Why should I, as a savvy businessperson, be interested
in grids?
• Should my company “plug in”?
• How do I get started? How to plan the move to Grid paradigm?
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Grid
Computing: Software Environments and Tools
Cunha, Jose C.; Rana, Omer F. (Eds.)
ISBN: 1-85233-998-5
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Grid Computing requires the use of software that can divide
and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand
computers. This book explores processes and techniques needed
to create a successful Grid infrastructure. Leading researchers
in Europe and the US look at the development of specialist tools
and environments which will encourage the convergence of the
parallel programming, distributed computing and data management
communities.
Specific topics covered include:
- An overview of structural and behavioural properties of
Computer Grid applications
- Discussion of alternative programming techniques
- Case studies displaying the potential of Computer Grids
in solving real problems
This book is unique in its outline of the needs of Computational
Grids both in integration of high-end resources using OGSA/Globus,
and the loose integration of Peer-2-Peer/Entropia/United Devices.
Readers will gain an insight on the limitations of existing
approaches as well as the standardisation activities currently
taking place.
Written for:
Software developers, application scientists, domain experts,
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The
Grid: Core Technologies
by Maozhen Li, Mark Baker
Publisher: John
Wiley & Son's
ISBN: 0-470-09417-6
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This invaluable
text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and practical
understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid. The
authors outline all the components necessary to create a Grid
infrastructure that enables support for a range of wide-area
distributed applications. The Grid: Core Technologies takes
a pragmatic approach with numerous practical examples of software
in context. It describes the middleware components of the
Grid step-by-step, and gives hands-on advice on designing
and building a Grid environment with the Globus Toolkit, as
well as writing applications.
The Grid: Core Technologies:
- Provides a solid and up-to-date introduction to the technologies
that underpin the Grid.
- Contains a systematic explanation of the Grid, including
its infrastructure, basic services, job management, user
interaction, and applications.
- Explains in detail OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture),
Web Services technologies (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), and Grid Monitoring.
- Covers Web portal-based tools such as the Java CoG, GridPort,
GridSphere, and JSR 168 Portlets.
- Tackles hot topics such as WSRF (Web Services Resource
Framework), the Semantic Grid, the Grid Security Infrastructure,
and Workflow systems.
- Offers practical examples to enhance the understanding
and use of Grid components and the associated tools.
This rich resource will be essential reading for researchers
and postgraduate students in computing and engineering departments,
IT professionals in distributed computing, as well as Grid
end users such as physicists, statisticians, biologists and
chemists.
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| From
P2P to Web Services and Grids
by Ian J. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1-85233-869-5 |
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This book provides a comprehensive
overview of emerging distributed-systems technologies. It
covers peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, which have revolutionized
the way we think about distributed computing and the internet,
alternative solutions, most notably web services and Grid
computing, but also other technologies, such as client/server
based systems and distributed-object technologies. A wide
range of middleware and application-based technologies are
covered, such as Jxta, Jini, Globus, Web services, OGSA, WSRF,
SOAP,WSDL, Napster and Gnutella, with emphasis given on the
architecture employed and security model chosen. Each technology
and its capabilities are analyzed in the context of the degree
of centralization or decentralization they employ. A resulting
taxonomy is created giving a context in which to consider
the most advanced and broad ranging distributed systems available
today, and provides an essential reference text for designing
new distributed systems.
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| Grid
Computing: A Practical Guide To Technology And Applications
by Ahmar Abbas
Publisher:Charles
River Media
ISBN: 1-58450-276-2 |
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This
book provides IT professionals with a clear, readable, and
pragmatic overview to all aspects of grid computing technology,
with hands-on guidelines on implementing a workable grid-computing
system. Beginning with a thorough history of the technology,
the book then delves into the key components including security,
Web services, sensor grids, data grids, globus, and much more.
The last section of the book is devoted to creating industry-specific
grid computing applications. Throughout the book are numerous
contributed chapters from grid computing experts.
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Grid Computing:
Making The Global Infrastructure a Reality
by Fran Berman (Editor), Geoffrey Fox (Editor), Tony Hey (Editor)
Publisher: John
Wiley & Son's
ISBN: 0470853190 |
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This
is essential reading for researchers in Computing and Engineering,
physicists, statisticians, engineers and mathematicians and
IT policy makers.
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
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The
aim of this book is to identify software engineering techniques
for Grid environments, along with specialist tools that encapsulate
such techniques, and case studies that illustrate the use
of these tools. With the emergence of regional, national and
global programmes to establish Grid computing infrastructure,
it is important to be able to utilise this infrastructure
effectively. Specialist software is therefore necessary to
both enable the deployment of applications over such infrastructure,
and to facilitate software developers in constructing software
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Grid : Blueprint For A New Computing Infrastructure
by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman
Publisher: Morgan
Kaufmann
ISBN: 1558604758 |
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The
grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about
and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple
regional and national computational grids, creating a universal
source of pervasive and dependable computing power that supports
dramatically new classes of applications. The Grid provides
a clear vision of what computational grids are, why we need
them, who will use them, and how they will be programmed.
Written
and edited by experts in the field, this book defines the
emerging area of high-performance distributed computing, documents
state-of-the-art developments, and lays out an agenda for
future research. This book provides a clear vision of what
computational grids look like, how they will be designed,
and how they will operate; how grid applications will be developed
and what new ways of thinking and programming they will require.
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