The Grid
Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
- 1st Edition - July 29, 1998
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman
- Language: English
The grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple regional and national computational grids, cre… Read more
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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.
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.
* 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.
Computer Science researchers and professionals.
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
- Edition: 1
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- Published: July 29, 1998
- Language: English
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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 LaboratoryCK
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