Grid Computing

Techniques and Applications

Barry Wilkinson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA), Horst D. Simon

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Chapman & Hall/CRC
28 September 2009

Grid computing

Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science

Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way. Extensively classroom-tested, it covers job submission and scheduling, Grid security, Grid computing services and software tools, graphical user interfaces, workflow editors, and Grid-enabling applications.

The book begins with an introduction that discusses the use of a Grid computing Web-based portal. It then examines the underlying action of job submission using a command-line interface and the use of a job scheduler. After describing both general Internet security techniques and specific security mechanisms developed for Grid computing, the author focuses on Web services technologies and how they are adopted for Grid computing. He also discusses the advantages of using a graphical user interface over a command-line interface and presents a graphical workflow editor that enables users to compose sequences of computational tasks visually using a simple drag-and-drop interface. The final chapter explains how to deploy applications on a Grid. The Grid computing platform offers much more than simply running an application at a remote site. It also enables multiple, geographically distributed computers to collectively obtain increased speed and fault tolerance. Illustrating this kind of resource discovery, this practical text encompasses the varied and interconnected aspects of Grid computing, including how to design a system infrastructure and Grid portal. Supplemental Web Resources The author's Web site offers various instructional resources, including slides and links to software for programming assignments. Many of these assignments do not require access to a Grid platform. Instead, the author provides step-by-step instructions for installing open-source software to deploy and test Web and Grid services, a Grid computing workflow editor to design and test workflows, and a Grid computing portal to deploy portlets.

By: Barry Wilkinson (University of North Carolina Charlotte USA)
Series edited by: Horst D. Simon
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 3
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9781420069532
ISBN 10: 1420069535
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
Pages: 388
Publication Date: 28 September 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barry Wilkinson is a professor of computer science and the director of the computer science master’s program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Reviews for Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications

! the most outstanding aspect of this book is its excellent structure: it is as though we have been given a map to help us move around this technology from the base to the summit ! I highly recommend this book ! --Jose Lloret, Computing Reviews, March 2010