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Informationen zum Autor 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). 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. Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung Reveals 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 technologies required to enable secure! reliable! and efficient resource sharing on large scale. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Perspectives 1. Grids in Context 2. The Scientific Imperative 3. The Industrial Imperative Part II: Framework 4. Concepts and Architecture Part 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 Collabor...
