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Grid Computing

Towards a Global Interconnected Infrastructure

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Editors:
  1. Nikolaos P. Preve

    1. School of Electrical and Computer Eng., National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  • Provides an in-depth study of grid technology for a wide range of different needs, with a particular focus on the practical advantages and applications of grid computing
  • Presents contributions from an international selection of experts in the field
  • Provides summarizing abstracts and conclusions for each chapter
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. E-Science, Applications, and Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. E-Science, Applications,& Optimization

    1. Leveraging the Grid for e-Science: The Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure

      • Alexey Cheptsov
      Pages 3-32

    2. Supporting e-Science Applications on e-Infrastructures: Some Use Cases from Latin America

      • Roberto Barbera, Francisco Brasileiro, Riccardo Bruno, Leandro Ciuffo, Diego Scardaci
      Pages 33-55

    3. GEMS: User Control for Cooperative Scientific Repositories

      • Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Santanu Chatterjee, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jesús Izaguirre
      Pages 57-87

    4. Performance Analysis and Optimization of Linear Workflows in Heterogeneous Network Environments

      • Qishi Wu, Yi Gu
      Pages 89-120

  4. Resource Management, Allocation, and Monitoring

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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  5. Resource Management, Allocation,& Monitoring

    1. Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids

      • Christos Chrysoulas, Nicolas Sklavos
      Pages 123-143

    2. Social Grid Agents

      • Gabriele Pierantoni, Brian Coghlan, Eamonn Kenny
      Pages 145-170

    3. Monitoring and Controlling Grid Systems

      • Ciprian Dobre
      Pages 171-201

  6. Grid Services and Middleware

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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  7. Grid Services& Middleware

    1. Service Level Agreements for Job Control in Grid and High-Performance Computing

      • Roland Kübert
      Pages 205-221

    2. Composable Services Architecture for Grids

      • Vassiliki Pouli, Yuri Demchenko, Constantinos Marinos, Diego R. Lopez, Mary Grammatikou
      Pages 223-247

    3. Phoenix: Employing Smart Logic to a New Generation of Semantically Driven Information Systems

      • Aggelos Liapis, Nasos Mixas, Nikitas Tsopelas
      Pages 249-273

  8. Grid Computing and Scientific Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
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  9. Grid Computing& Scientific Problems

    1. State-of-Art with PhyloGrid: Grid Computing Phylogenetic Studies on the EELA-2 Project Infrastructure

      • Raul Isea, Esther Montes, Antonio Juan Rubio-Montero, Rafael Mayo
      Pages 277-291

    2. The Usage of the Grid in the Simulation of the Comet Oort-Cloud Formation

      • Giuseppe Leto, Ján Astaloš, Marián Jakubík, Luboš Neslušan, Piotr A. Dybczyński
      Pages 293-306

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 307-312
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About this book

This book presents research from many of the major projects involved in the emerging global grid infrastructure.  With a particular focus on the practical advantages and applications of grid computing – including real case studies – the book provides an in-depth study of grid technology for a wide range of different needs. Topics: examines a remote instrumentation infrastructure, and a methodology to support e-science applications on e-infrastructures; describes the GEMS storage system, and pipeline workflows for optimizing end-to-end performance in wide-area networks; investigates semantic grid system architecture, social grid agents, and monitoring platforms designed for large-scale distributed systems; explores job control using service-level agreements; introduces the Composable Services Architecture for dynamic service provisioning, and the semantically driven communication middleware platform, Phoenix; discusses the PhyloGrid application, and a numerical simulation performed using grid computing.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This book on grid computing gathers contributions from a wide range of influential figures in the grid computing environment. … As a reader, I can find a lot of information on grid computing in the public domain. … this book serves as a good repository of articles on theories, architectures, infrastructure administration, and practical applications. Due to this diversity of contributions from successful influencers in grid computing, the book will be well appreciated by academia, researchers, and practitioners.” (Harekrishna Misra, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Electrical and Computer Eng., National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos P. Preve

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Grid Computing

  • Book Subtitle: Towards a Global Interconnected Infrastructure

  • Editors: Nikolaos P. Preve

  • Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-676-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-675-7Published: 25 June 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2669-0Published: 03 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-676-4Published: 23 June 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1617-7975

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 312

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks

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