Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Applications and Design

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• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Grid computing promises to transform the way organizations and individuals compute, communicate, and collaborate.

Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Applications and Design offers critical perspectives on theoretical frameworks, methodologies, implementations, and cutting edge research in grid computing, bridging the gap between academia and the latest achievements of the computer industry. Useful for professionals and students involved or interested in the study, use, design, and development of grid computing, this book highlights both the basics of the field and in depth analyses of grid networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgement......Page 15
Section 1. Principal of Grid Infrastructures
......Page 16
Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems......Page 18
A Complementary Approach to Grid and Cloud Distributed Computing Paradigms......Page 48
Grid, SOA and Cloud Computing......Page 62
Grid Scheduling......Page 103
Grid Data Handling......Page 129
Section 2. Grid Network Designs
......Page 157
E-Infrastructures for International Cooperation......Page 158
Architecturing Resource Aware Sensor Grid Middleware......Page 211
Grid Access Control Models and Architectures......Page 234
Grid Computing for Ontology Matching......Page 252
Section 3. Applications for Grid Computing
......Page 264
Security Standards and Issues for Grid Computing......Page 265
Information Security in Data and Storage Grids through GS3......Page 282
Application of Grid Computing for Meteorological Assessment of Wind and Solar Resources in Sub-Saharan African Countries......Page 300
Adaptive Grid Services......Page 308
Enhancing the Grid with Multi-agent and Semantic Capabilities......Page 331
Flow-Based Networking Architectures under Mixed Internet and Grid Traffic......Page 360
About the Contributors......Page 380
Index......Page 396