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Grid Resource Management Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing

306 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations

by CRC Press

306 Pages

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Description

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management: Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing presents a comprehensive account of the architectural issues of grid technology, such as security, data management, logging, and aggregation of services, as... Read more

An Overview of Grid Computing
Introduction
Classifying grid usages
Classifying grid systems
Definitions
Evolution of grid computing

Grid Computing and Web Services
Introduction
Web services
Web services protocols and technology
Grid services

Data Management in Grid Environments
Introduction
The scientific challenges
Major data grid efforts today
Data management challenges in grid environments
Overview of existing solutions

Peer-to-Peer Data Management
Introduction
Defining peer-to-peer
Data location and routing algorithms
Shortcomings and improvements of P2P systems

Grid-Enabled Virtual File Systems
Introduction
Background
Data access problems in the grid
Related work
GRAVY: GRid-enAbled Virtual file sYstem
Architectural issues
Use cases
Experimental results

Scheduling Grid Services
Introduction
Scheduling algorithms and strategies
Architecture
Service discovery
Resource information
Data-intensive service scheduling
Fault tolerant

Workflow Design and Portal
Overview
Management systems
Workflow specification languages
Scheduling and rescheduling
Portal integration
A case study on the use of workflow technologies for scientific analysis

Semantic Web
Introduction
Semantic grid
Semantic web services
Semantic matching of web services
Semantic workflow

Integration of Scientific Applications
Introduction
Framework
Implementation
Security
Evaluation

Potential for Engineering and Scientific Computations
Introduction
Grid applications
Grid projects
Grid service programming

Conclusions
Summary
Future for grid computing

Glossary

Index

Concluding Remarks and References appear at the end of each chapter.