Grid Technologies
Emerging from Distributed Architectures to Virtual Organizations
Published on 30. June 2006
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-1-84564-055-2 (ISBN)
Description
Current Grid enabling technologies consist of stand-alone architectures. A typical architecture provides middleware access to various services at different hierarchical levels. Computational Grids enable the sharing, selection and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computation resources (such as supercomputers, clusters of computers, storage systems, data sources, instruments, people etc.) and present them as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale computations and data intensive computing applications (e.g. engineering problems, molecular modelling for drug design, brain activity analysis, high energy physics, etc.). Grid Computing is a newly emerging research area, which aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources. This book is an excellent reference for the realisation and use of various Grid technology issues. It contains a significant amount of expository and explanatory material, which is structured in a modular fashion.Working experts describe their implementation research including results that are divided into two parts of self-standing chapters, each part surveying several subjects of interest in the areas of web services, middleware and distributed and Grid computing methodologies.
The book as a text and research material is aimed at graduate/postgraduate students and researchers working in the area of Grid technologies. It can also be used by educators at these levels to illustrate the use and methods of Grid computing. Because the mathematical analyses are lucid and various case studies are focused upon and dealt with, it can also serve as a good reference book for practitioners in this field worldwide.
The book as a text and research material is aimed at graduate/postgraduate students and researchers working in the area of Grid technologies. It can also be used by educators at these levels to illustrate the use and methods of Grid computing. Because the mathematical analyses are lucid and various case studies are focused upon and dealt with, it can also serve as a good reference book for practitioners in this field worldwide.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-055-2 (9781845640552)
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Content
Chapter 1: Visualization services on the Grid - state of the art in Grid-based visualization Introduction; Related work; Integrating visualization into grid applications; Basic technologies for grid-based visualization; The GVK concept; Applications; Conclusions and future work Chapter 2: Network and service aware Grid resource assignment Introduction; Survey of related work; Grid models; Network aware scheduling; Service aware scheduling; Resource-to-service partitioning; Summary Chapter 3: Grid service architecture for videoconferencing Introduction; Related work; Global-MMCS; Audiovisual collaboration in Global-MMCS; Implementation and performance; Conclusion and future work Chapter 4: Building a Grid of Grids: messaging substrates and information management Introduction: classifying Grid families; Building message-based services: internet-on-internet; Context and information environments (CIE); Summary Chapter 5: Replica management services on the Grid: Evolving from a centralized design to a fully distributed, scalable and fault-tolerant peer-to-peer infrastructure Introduction; The Data Grid architecture; Timeline of RLD implementations; Using a peer-to-peer system as the basis of a scalable RLS; Design; Implementation; Related work; Conclusion Chapter 6: Towards trustworthy Grids: fundamentals of computer security and Grid security Importance of Grid security; Security fundamentals; Grid security backgrounds; Summary Chapter 7: Towards trustworthy Grids: trust negotiation and multiparty joint authentication in Grids Trust aware Grids; Mathematical instance of trust model; Trust aware Grid application; Multiparty authentication in Grids; Summary Chapter 8: The personal Grid e-workplace (g-work) Introduction; Related work; ICTs for development projects and policies; G-work: semantic integration and personal grid e-workspace; Conclusion and future work Chapter 9: State-of-arts: workflow management for Grid computing Introduction; Concept of workflow; Grid workflow: workflow system in computational Grids; Survey of research efforts on Grid workflow; Research challenges for future work Chapter 10: WebCom-G: middleware to hide the Grid Introduction; Current Grid space; WebCom MetaComputer; WebCom as a Grid middleware; Condensed graphs applications; Looking forward Chapter 11: Work coordination for Grid computing Introduction; Grid workflow management systems; Grid coordination paradigms; Selected Grid workflow systems; Java CoG Kit workflow; Conclusion Chapter 12: Grid computing: towards building supercomputing platforms Introduction to Grid environment; Categories and basic Grid layers; Grid impact to society; Globus Toolkit; MPICH-G2; Installation procedure of MPICH-G2; A Typical application in the digital systems lab; Appendix Chapter 13: Towards a pilot Grid platform for internet high performance computations Open Grid architecture for internet distributed processing; Pilot digital platform creation; Uploading on server and cluster definition; Distributed vs. Grid computing at experimentation level; Normalized approximate inverse preconditioning; Parallel preconditioned conjugate gradient method; Case study; Conclusions Chapter 14: An overview of Grid-based Monte Carlo computing Introduction; Components of Monte Carlo methods and Grid-based Monte Carlo methods; The Grid-based Monte Carlo paradigm; Parallel random number generation on the Grid; Improving the performance and trustworthiness of Grid-based Monte Carlo computing; Monte Carlo applications on the Grid; Conclusions; Future research directions Chapter 15: A Grid infrastructure of custom processing elements for scientific computations Introduction; Scientific application areas suitable for systolic array mapping; Realization and mapping of matrix algorithms; Systolic and wavefront arrays; The Butterfly method for solving linear systems; Functional-operational description of the (P+S)M-DEWAP; The rectangular systolic array; Conclusive remarks Chapter 16: Service Grid for business computing Introduction; Grid computing overview; Web services orientation; Service-oriented Grid; Integrated service platform for integration; Challenges and considerations