Synopses & Reviews
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.
Inside The Grid
* Written by over 30 distinguished experts in high-performance computing and networking, including Francine Berman, Tom DeFanti, Jack Dongarra, Dennis Gannon, Roch Guerin, Ken Kennedy, Miron Livny, Paul Messina, Reagan Moore, Clifford Neuman, Larry Peterson, Jon Postel, and Daniel Reed.
* Edited by the winners of the prestigious 1998 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Award an awards program characterized by U.S. Vice President Al Gore as "confirm[ing] our brightest hopes: that the positive uses of high technology will truly open up new opportunities for all Americans and improve our quality of life."
* Introduced by Larry Smarr, director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications and director of the National Computational Science Alliance, with a chapter that puts grids in context.
Review
"This is a source book for the history of the future."
Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Engineering, MCI Communications
Synopsis
] our brightest hopes: that the positive uses of high technology will truly open up new opportunities for all Americans and improve our quality of life."
Introduced by Larry Smarr, director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications and director of the National Computational Science Alliance, with a chapter that puts grids in context.Synopsis
Americans and improve our quality of life."
Introduced by Larry Smarr, director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications and director of the National Computational Science Alliance, with a chapter that puts grids in context.About the Author
Most recently Carl Kesselman received international recognition for GUSTO, the worldâs 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.
University of Southern California
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
1. Grids in Context
2. Computational Grids
I Applications
3 Distributed Supercomputing Applications
4 Real-Time Widely Distributed Instrumentation Systems
5 Data-Intensive Computing
6 Teleimmersion
II Programming Tools
7 Application-Specific Tools
8 Compilers, Languages, and Libraries
9 Object-Based Approaches
10 High-Performance Commodity Computing
III Services
11 The Globus Toolkit
12 High-Performance Schedulers
13 High-Throughput Resource Management
14 Instrumentation and Measurement
15 Performance Analysis and Visualization
16 Security, Accounting, and Assurance
IV Infrastructure
17 Computing Platforms
18 Network Protocols
19 Network Quality of Service
20 Operating Systems and Network Interfaces
21 Network Infrastructure
22 Testbed Bridges from Research to Infrastructure
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies