Grid computing

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 22
Part 1 Grid Computing......Page 24
 CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 26
  Early Grid Activities......Page 29
  Current Grid Activities......Page 32
  An Overview of Grid Business Areas......Page 35
  Grid Applications......Page 39
  Grid Infrastructure......Page 42
  Conclusion......Page 46
  Notes......Page 47
Part 2 Grid Computing Worldwide Initiatives......Page 48
 CHAPTER 2 Grid Computing Organizations and Their Roles......Page 50
  Organizations Developing Grid Standards and Best Practice Guidelines......Page 51
  Organizations Developing Grid Computing Toolkits and the Framework......Page 53
  Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions to Solve Computing, Data, and Network Requirements......Page 61
  Notes......Page 68
 CHAPTER 3 The Grid Computing Anatomy......Page 70
  The Grid Problem......Page 71
  Notes......Page 80
 CHAPTER 4 The Grid Computing Road Map......Page 82
  Autonomic Computing......Page 83
  Business On Demand and Infrastructure Virtualization......Page 84
  Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid......Page 86
  Semantic Grids......Page 89
  Notes......Page 91
Part 3 The New Generation of Grid Computing Applications......Page 92
 CHAPTER 5 Merging the Grid Services Architecture with the Web Services Architecture......Page 94
  Service-Oriented Architecture......Page 95
  Web Service Architecture......Page 97
  XML Messages and Enveloping......Page 98
  Service Message Description Mechanisms......Page 103
  Relationship between Web Service and Grid Service......Page 126
  Web Service Interoperability and the Role of the WS-I Organization......Page 130
  Notes......Page 135
Part 4 The Grid Computing Technological Viewpoints......Page 138
  Introduction......Page 140
  OGSA Architecture and Goal......Page 141
 CHAPTER 7 Some Sample Use Cases that Drive the OGSA......Page 144
  Commercial Data Center (CDC)......Page 145
  National Fusion Collaboratory (NFS)......Page 146
  Online Media and Entertainment......Page 148
  Summary......Page 149
  Note......Page 150
 CHAPTER 8 The OGSA Platform Components......Page 152
  OGSA Hosting Environment......Page 153
  OGSA Basic Services......Page 154
  Summary......Page 155
  Grid Services......Page 156
  A High-Level Introduction to OGSI......Page 159
  Technical Details of OGSI Specification......Page 161
  Introduction to Service Data Concepts......Page 165
  Grid Service: Naming and Change Management Recommendations......Page 174
  Summary......Page 200
  Notes......Page 201
  Common Management Model (CMM)......Page 202
  Service Domains......Page 212
  Policy Architecture......Page 214
  Security Architecture......Page 219
  Metering and Accounting......Page 227
  Common Distributed Logging......Page 229
  Distributed Data Access and Replication......Page 231
  Notes......Page 236
Part 5 The Grid Computing Toolkits......Page 238
 CHAPTER 11 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit: Architecture......Page 240
  GT3 Software Architecture Model......Page 241
  Note......Page 250
  Service Programming Model......Page 252
  Summary......Page 303
 CHAPTER 13 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit: A Sample Implementation......Page 304
  Acme Search Service Implementation in a Top-Down Approach......Page 305
  Notes......Page 351
  Resource Allocation......Page 352
  Data Management......Page 353
  Information Services......Page 354
  Index Services......Page 362
  Resource Information Provider Service......Page 368
  Resource Management Services......Page 370
  Data Management Services......Page 374
  Note......Page 375
  OGSI.NET Framework Implementation......Page 376
  Summary......Page 381
  Notes......Page 382
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