Grid computing

✍ Scribed by Joseph, Joshy; Fellenstein, Craig

• Publisher: IBM Press; Books24x7.com
• Year: 2003;2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Series: On demand series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Teaching how to start and which applications to start with, understand the technologies and standards, and eliminate administering disparate non-integrated systems, this guide brings together deployment practices, practical guidance on integrating existing resources, and case studies to drive business value from the grid computing revolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 22
Part 1 Grid Computing......Page 24
CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 26
Early Grid Activities......Page 29
Current Grid Activities......Page 32
An Overview of Grid Business Areas......Page 35
Grid Applications......Page 39
Grid Infrastructure......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 46
Notes......Page 47
Part 2 Grid Computing Worldwide Initiatives......Page 48
CHAPTER 2 Grid Computing Organizations and Their Roles......Page 50
Organizations Developing Grid Standards and Best Practice Guidelines......Page 51
Organizations Developing Grid Computing Toolkits and the Framework......Page 53
Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions to Solve Computing, Data, and Network Requirements......Page 61
Notes......Page 68
CHAPTER 3 The Grid Computing Anatomy......Page 70
The Grid Problem......Page 71
Notes......Page 80
CHAPTER 4 The Grid Computing Road Map......Page 82
Autonomic Computing......Page 83
Business On Demand and Infrastructure Virtualization......Page 84
Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid......Page 86
Semantic Grids......Page 89
Notes......Page 91
Part 3 The New Generation of Grid Computing Applications......Page 92
CHAPTER 5 Merging the Grid Services Architecture with the Web Services Architecture......Page 94
Service-Oriented Architecture......Page 95
Web Service Architecture......Page 97
XML Messages and Enveloping......Page 98
Service Message Description Mechanisms......Page 103
Relationship between Web Service and Grid Service......Page 126
Web Service Interoperability and the Role of the WS-I Organization......Page 130
Notes......Page 135
Part 4 The Grid Computing Technological Viewpoints......Page 138
Introduction......Page 140
OGSA Architecture and Goal......Page 141
CHAPTER 7 Some Sample Use Cases that Drive the OGSA......Page 144
Commercial Data Center (CDC)......Page 145
National Fusion Collaboratory (NFS)......Page 146
Online Media and Entertainment......Page 148
Summary......Page 149
Note......Page 150
CHAPTER 8 The OGSA Platform Components......Page 152
OGSA Hosting Environment......Page 153
OGSA Basic Services......Page 154
Summary......Page 155
Grid Services......Page 156
A High-Level Introduction to OGSI......Page 159
Technical Details of OGSI Specification......Page 161
Introduction to Service Data Concepts......Page 165
Grid Service: Naming and Change Management Recommendations......Page 174
Summary......Page 200
Notes......Page 201
Common Management Model (CMM)......Page 202
Service Domains......Page 212
Policy Architecture......Page 214
Security Architecture......Page 219
Metering and Accounting......Page 227
Common Distributed Logging......Page 229
Distributed Data Access and Replication......Page 231
Notes......Page 236
Part 5 The Grid Computing Toolkits......Page 238
CHAPTER 11 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit: Architecture......Page 240
GT3 Software Architecture Model......Page 241
Note......Page 250
Service Programming Model......Page 252
Summary......Page 303
CHAPTER 13 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit: A Sample Implementation......Page 304
Acme Search Service Implementation in a Top-Down Approach......Page 305
Notes......Page 351
Resource Allocation......Page 352
Data Management......Page 353
Information Services......Page 354
Index Services......Page 362
Resource Information Provider Service......Page 368
Resource Management Services......Page 370
Data Management Services......Page 374
Note......Page 375
OGSI.NET Framework Implementation......Page 376
Summary......Page 381
Notes......Page 382
C......Page 384
G......Page 385
M......Page 386
S......Page 387
V......Page 388
W......Page 389
References......Page 390
C......Page 392
G......Page 393
L......Page 396
O......Page 397
R......Page 398
S......Page 399
W......Page 400
X......Page 401