Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications (Hardcover)

Identifies Recent Technological Developments Worldwide

The field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the past few years, evolving and developing in almost all areas, including concepts, philosophy, methodology, and usages. Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications reflects the recent advances in this field, covering the research aspects that involve infrastructure, middleware, architecture, services, and applications.

Grid Systems Across the Globe

The first section of the book focuses on infrastructure and middleware and presents several national and international grid systems. The text highlights China Research and Development environment Over Wide-area Network (CROWN), several ongoing cyberinfrastructure efforts in New York State, and Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), which is co-funded by the European Commission and the world’s largest multidisciplinary grid infrastructure today.

The second part of the book discusses recent grid service advances. The authors examine the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the concept of resource allocation in a grid environment, OMIIBPEL, and the possibility of treating scientific workflow issues using techniques from the data stream community. The book describes an SLA model, reviews portal and workflow technologies, presents an overview of PKIs and their limitations, and introduces PIndex, a peer-to-peer model for grid information services.

New Projects and Initiatives

The third section includes an analysis of innovative grid applications. Topics covered include the WISDOM initiative, incorporating flow-level networking models into grid simulators, system-level virtualization, grid usage in the high-energy physics environment in the LHC project, and the Service Oriented HLA RTI (SOHR) framework.

With a comprehensive summary of past advances, this text is a window into the future of this nascent technology, forging a path for the next generation of cyberinfrastructure developers.

《網格計算：基礎設施、服務和應用》反映了網格計算領域近年來的快速發展，幾乎在所有領域都有概念、哲學、方法論和應用的進步。本書涵蓋了涉及基礎設施、中間件、架構、服務和應用的研究方面，反映了這一領域的最新進展。

書籍的第一部分聚焦於基礎設施和中間件，介紹了幾個國家和國際網格系統。文中重點介紹了中國研究和開發環境覆蓋廣域網絡（CROWN）、紐約州正在進行的幾個網絡基礎設施項目，以及由歐洲委員會共同資助的當今世界上最大的多學科網格基礎設施——Enabling Grids for E-sciencE（EGEE）。

書籍的第二部分討論了最近的網格服務進展。作者們探討了英國國家網格服務（NGS）、網格環境中的資源分配概念、OMIIBPEL，以及使用數據流社區技術處理科學工作流問題的可能性。本書描述了一個服務水平協議（SLA）模型，回顧了門戶和工作流技術，介紹了PKI的概述及其限制，並引入了PIndex，一種用於網格信息服務的點對點模型。

書籍的第三部分包括對創新網格應用的分析。涵蓋的主題包括WISDOM計劃、將流級網絡模型納入網格模擬器、系統級虛擬化、LHC項目中高能物理環境中的網格使用，以及面向服務的HLA RTI（SOHR）框架。

本書全面總結了過去的進展，是了解這一新興技術未來發展的一扇窗口，為下一代網絡基礎設施開發人員鋪平了道路。