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 Collaboration
System
16. Collaborative Science: Astrophysics Requirements and
Experiences
Part IV: Architecture
17. The Open Grid Services Architecture
18. Resource and Service Management
19. Building Reliable Clients and Services
20. Instrumentation and Monitoring
21. Security for Virtual Organizations: Federating Trust and Policy
Domains
Part V Data and Knowledge
22. Data Access, Integration and Management
23. Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and
Semantics
Part VI: Tools
24. Application-Level tools
25. Languages, Compilers, and Runtime System
26. Application Tuning and Adaptation
Part VII: Infrastructure
27. Production Deployment: Experiences and Recommendations
28. Computing Elements
29. Peer-to-Peer Technologies
30. Network Infrastructure
31. Bibliography
*30 chapters including more than a dozen completely new
chapters.
*Web access to 13 unchanged chapters from the first edition.
*Three personal essays by influential thinkers on the significance
of Grids from the perspectives of infrastructure, industry, and
science.
*A foundational overview of the central Grid concepts and
architectural principles.
*Twelve application vignettes showcase working Grids in science,
engineering, industry, and commerce.
*Detailed discussions of core architecture and services, data and
knowledge management, and higher-level tools.
*Focused presentations on production Grid deployment, computing
platforms, peer-to-peer technologies, and network
infrastructures.
*Extensive bibliography and glossary.
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.
"I am struck by the increased emphasis on applications---50% more
pages and 4 times the number of chapters---than in the first
edition. There is also more material on developing standards,
policy, and management. These are true signs of a maturing
technology. I hold firm that the Grid will have significant impact
on more aspects and segments of IT than the designers originally
conceived. The rich experiences in this book will convince the
reader as well" --Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief
Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard
"The "doing of science" s at an inflection point: Computation,
collaboration, visualization and smart storage lie at the heart of
what science in the 21st century requires. This extremely readable
collection provides a detailed roadmap for creating a global
platform that enables this transformation. Most fascinating, to me,
is how the Grid creates a technical artifact around which the
social practices of science will evolve. Cultures form around
artifacts,which is why this book is so important." --John Seely
Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC), co-author of The Social Life of
Information, HBSP 2000
"The Grid, 2nd Edition, extends a vision and agenda for another
decade. The Grid and web services technologies are enabling
pioneering, distributed applications that begin to fulfil the
vision. Eventually we"ll look back on the resulting standardization
for interoperation as the real revolution. The standards and
discipline will enable a new form of software construction,
delivery, and even restructure the software industry." --Gordon
Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft
"Foster and Kesselman have done a great job in documenting the
promises and challenges of GRIDs as they evolve from their
distributed computing roots to support the virtualization of
applications." --Robert Aiken, Director of Engineering
Academic Research and Technology Initiatives (ARTI), Cisco Systems
Inc.
"Do you want to understand why the computer, as we know it today,
will become obsolete? If yes, put your money down, and buy this
book. I congratulate the authors." --Philip Emeagwali, Scientist
and "A Father of the Internet
"Since the first edition of this book, the Grid has evolved from
vision to reality: it has become a computing and data management
infrastructure that is widely used in science and engineering, has
a strong industrial support and has a large community of developers
and users. The two editors of this book, Ian Foster and Carl
Kesselman, played a leading role in this transformation. This new
edition of The Grid reflects this change. Like the original
edition, it is likely to become the one essential reference about
the Grid, as well as an excellent introduction to the technologies
that are used in the Grid infrastructure.2 --Marc Snir, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"For proponents of Grid computing and for the IT community that
seeks to apply these ideas, this book will serve as a first class
tour of the concept space and the details of its implementation.
Guaranteed to be thought provoking and an excellent source of
information." --Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer
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