Li / Baker The Grid

Core Technologies
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-09418-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 452 Seiten, E-Book

Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employthem successfully!
This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, andpractical understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid.The authors outline all the components necessary to create a Gridinfrastructure that enables support for a range of wide-areadistributed applications. The Grid: Core Technologies takesa pragmatic approach with numerous practical examples of softwarein context. It describes the middleware components of the Gridstep-by-step, and gives hands-on advice on designing and building aGrid environment with the Globus Toolkit, as well as writingapplications.
The Grid: Core Technologies:
* Provides a solid and up-to-date introduction to thetechnologies that underpin the Grid.
* Contains a systematic explanation of the Grid, including itsinfrastructure, basic services, job management, user interaction,and applications.
* Explains in detail OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture), WebServices 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 ResourceFramework), the Semantic Grid, the Grid Security Infrastructure,and Workflow systems.
* Offers practical examples to enhance the understanding and useof Grid components and the associated tools.
This rich resource will be essential reading for researchers andpostgraduate students in computing and engineering departments, ITprofessionals in distributed computing, as well as Grid end userssuch as physicists, statisticians, biologists and chemists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Maozhen

Baker, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
1 An Introduction to the Grid.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Characterization of the Grid.
1.3 Grid-Related Standards Bodies.
1.4 The Architecture of the Grid.
1.5 References.
Part One: System Infrastructure.
2 OGSA and WSRF.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Traditional Paradigms for Distributed Computing.
2.3 Web Services.
2.4 OGSA.
2.5 The Globus Toolkit 3 (GT3).
2.6 OGSA-DAI.
2.7 WSRF.
2.8 Chapter Summary.
2.9 Further Reading and Testing.
2.10 Key Points.
2.11 References.
3 The Semantic Grid and Autonomic Computing.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Metadata and Ontology in the Semantic Web.
3.3 Semantic Web Services.
3.4 A Layered Structure of the Semantic Grid.
3.5 Semantic Grid Activities.
3.6 Autonomic Computing.
3.6.1 What is autonomic computing?
3.6.2 Features of autonomic computing systems.
3.6.3 Autonomic computing projects.
3.6.4 A vision of autonomic Grid services.
3.7 Chapter Summary.
3.8 Further Reading and Testing.
3.9 Key Points.
3.10 References.
Part Two: Basic Services.
4 Grid Security.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 A Brief Security Primer.
4.3 Cryptography.
4.4 Grid Security.
4.5 Putting it all Together.
4.6 Possible Vulnerabilities.
4.7 Summary.
4.8 Acknowledgements.
4.9 Further Reading.
4.10 References.
5 Grid Monitoring.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA).
5.3 Review Criteria.
5.4 An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems.
5.5 Other Monitoring Systems.
5.6 Summary.
5.7 Chapter Summary.
5.8 Further Reading and Testing.
5.9 Key Points.
5.10 References.
Part Three: Job Management and User Interaction.
6 Grid Scheduling and Resource Management.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Scheduling Paradigms.
6.3 How Scheduling Works.
6.4 A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF.
6.5 Grid Scheduling with QoS.
6.6 Chapter Summary.
6.7 Further Reading and Testing.
6.8 Key Points.
6.9 References.
7 Workflow Management for the Grid.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 The Workflow Management Coalition.
7.3 Web Services-Oriented Flow Languages.
7.4 Grid Services-Oriented Flow Languages.
7.5 Workflow Management for the Grid.
7.6 Chapter Summary.
7.7 Further Reading and Testing.
7.8 Key Points.
7.9 References.
8 Grid Portals.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 First-Generation Grid Portals.
8.3 Second-Generation Grid Portals.
8.4 Chapter Summary.
8.5 Further Reading and Testing.
8.6 Key Points.
8.7 References.
Part Four: Applications.
9 Grid Applications - Case Studies.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 GT3 Use Cases.
9.3 OGSA-DAI Use Cases.
9.4 Resource Management Case Studies.
9.5 Grid Portal Use Cases.
9.6 Workflow Management - Discovery Net Use Cases.
9.7 Semantic Grid - myGrid Use Case.
9.8 Autonomic Computing - AutoMate Use Case.
9.9 Conclusions.
9.10 References.
Glossary.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Maozhen Li is currently Lecturer in Electronics andComputer Engineering, in the School of Engineering and Design atBrunel University, UK. From January 1999 to January 2002, he wasResearch Associate in the Department of Computer Science, CardiffUniversity, UK. Dr Li received his PhD degree in 1997, from theInstitute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.His research interests are in the areas of Grid computing,problem-solving environments for large-scale simulations, softwareagents for semantic information retrieval, multi-modal userinterface design and computer support for cooperative work. Since1997, Dr Li has published 30 research papers in prestigiousinternational journals and conferences.
Dr Mark Baker is a hardworking Reader in DistributedSystems at the University of Portsmouth. He also currently holdsvisiting chairs at the universities of Reading and Westminster.Mark has resided in the relative safety of academia since leavingthe British Merchant, where he was a navigating officer, in theearly 1980s. Mark has held posts at various universities, includingCardiff, Edinburgh and Syracuse. He has a number of geek-likeinterests, which his research group at Portsmouth help him pursue.These include wide-area resource monitoring, messaging systems forparallel and wide-area applications, middleware such as informationand security services, as well as performance evaluation andmodelling of computer systems.
Mark's non-academic interests include squash (getting tooold), DIY (he may one day finish his house off), reading (far toomany science fiction books), keeping the garden ship-shape and abeer or two to reduce the pain of the aforementionedactivities.