The Grid 2

Ian Foster is Senior Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he also leads the Distributed Systems Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His research concerns techniques, tools, and algorithms for high-performance distributed computing, parallel computing, and computational science. Foster led the research and development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases, and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America (a live experiment at the Supercomputing conference of 1995). Most recently Carl Kesselman received international recognition for GUSTO, the world’s first high-performance computational grid. GUSTO pushes the technological envelope by using high-speed networks and software to provide global access to advanced supercomputers and other devices.

"I am struck by the increased emphasis on applications---50% more pages and 4 times the number of chapters---than in the first edition. There is also more material on developing standards, policy, and management. These are true signs of a maturing technology. I hold firm that the Grid will have significant impact on more aspects and segments of IT than the designers originally conceived. The rich experiences in this book will convince the reader as well" --Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard"The "doing of science" s at an inflection point: Computation, collaboration, visualization and smart storage lie at the heart of what science in the 21st century requires. This extremely readable collection provides a detailed roadmap for creating a global platform that enables this transformation. Most fascinating, to me, is how the Grid creates a technical artifact around which the social practices of science will evolve. Cultures form around artifacts,which is why this book is so important." --John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), co-author of The Social Life of Information, HBSP 2000"The Grid, 2nd Edition, extends a vision and agenda for another decade. The Grid and web services technologies are enabling pioneering, distributed applications that begin to fulfil the vision. Eventually we"ll look back on the resulting standardization for interoperation as the real revolution. The standards and discipline will enable a new form of software construction, delivery, and even restructure the software industry." --Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft"Foster and Kesselman have done a great job in documenting the promises and challenges of GRIDs as they evolve from their distributed computing roots to support the virtualization of applications." --Robert Aiken, Director of Engineering Academic Research and Technology Initiatives (ARTI), Cisco Systems Inc."Do you want to understand why the computer, as we know it today, will become obsolete? If yes, put your money down, and buy this book. I congratulate the authors." --Philip Emeagwali, Scientist and "A Father of the Internet"Since the first edition of this book, the Grid has evolved from vision to reality: it has become a computing and data management infrastructure that is widely used in science and engineering, has a strong industrial support and has a large community of developers and users. The two editors of this book, Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, played a leading role in this transformation. This new edition of The Grid reflects this change. Like the original edition, it is likely to become the one essential reference about the Grid, as well as an excellent introduction to the technologies that are used in the Grid infrastructure.2 --Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"For proponents of Grid computing and for the IT community that seeks to apply these ideas, this book will serve as a first class tour of the concept space and the details of its implementation. Guaranteed to be thought provoking and an excellent source of information." --Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer

• Part I: Perspectives1. Grids in Context2. The Scientific Imperative3. The Industrial ImperativePart II: Framework4. Concepts and ArchitecturePart III: Applications5. Predictive Maintenance: Distributed Aircraft Engine Diagnostics6. Distributed Telepresence: The NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory7. Scientific Data Federation: The World Wide Telescope8. Medical Data Federation: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network9. Knowledge Integration: In silico Experiments in Bioinformatics10. Distributed Data Analysis: Federated Computing for High Energy Physics11. Massively Distributed Computing: Virtual Screening on a Desktop Grid12. Enterprise Resource Management: Applications in Research and Industry13. Interactivity with Scalability: Infrastructure for Multiplayer Games14. Service Virtualization: Infrastructure and Applications15. Group-Oriented Collaboration: The Access Grid Collaboration System16. Collaborative Science: Astrophysics Requirements and ExperiencesPart IV: Architecture17. The Open Grid Services Architecture 18. Resource and Service Management19. Building Reliable Clients and Services20. Instrumentation and Monitoring21. Security for Virtual Organizations: Federating Trust and Policy Domains Part V Data and Knowledge22. Data Access, Integration and Management23. Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and Semantics Part VI: Tools 24. Application-Level tools 25. Languages, Compilers, and Runtime System26. Application Tuning and Adaptation Part VII: Infrastructure 27. Production Deployment: Experiences and Recommendations 28. Computing Elements 29. Peer-to-Peer Technologies 30. Network Infrastructure31. Bibliography