Fundamentals of Grid Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Technologies

by Frederic Magoules (Editor)

Overview

The integration and convergence of state-of-the-art technologies in the grid have enabled more flexible, automatic, and complex grid services to fulfill industrial and commercial needs, from the LHC at CERN to meteorological forecasting systems. Fundamentals of Grid Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Technologies discusses how the novel technologies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040212585
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/23/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Frederic Magoules is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Systems Laboratory at ecole Centrale Paris in Chatenay-Malabry, France.

Table of Contents

Grid Computing Overview. Synchronization Protocols for Sharing Resources in Grid Environments. Data Replication in Grid Environment. Data Management in Grids. Future of Grids Resources Management. Fault Tolerance and Availability Awareness in Computational Grids. Fault Tolerance for Distributed Scheduling in Grids. Broadcasting for Grids. Load Balancing Algorithms for Dynamic Networks. Appendices. Index.

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From the Publisher

… the common characteristics [of the nine chapters] are the clear exposition and the practical view, especially in what concerns the available implementations of the concepts. … The introductory chapters as well as the ones referring to recent trends can be useful for graduate students who are interested in distributed computing, while the chapters addressing data management, scheduling, synchronization, fault tolerance or broadcasting provide new solutions for researchers and practitioners already initiated in grid computing techniques.
—Zentralblatt MATH, 1191

This book shows, in some sense, the way to the future, where next generation middleware such as those described here will replace in the production infrastructure the more rudimentary ones in use today. Therefore, I am sure that the readers will greatly benefit from this insightful journey in the heart of the grids, a key technology in a very large number of scientific endeavors.
—From the Foreword by Guy Wormser, Institut des Grilles, CNRS, Orsay, France

Editorial Reviews

… the common characteristics [of the nine chapters] are the clear exposition and the practical view, especially in what concerns the available implementations of the concepts. … The introductory chapters as well as the ones referring to recent trends can be useful for graduate students who are interested in distributed computing, while the chapters addressing data management, scheduling, synchronization, fault tolerance or broadcasting provide new solutions for researchers and practitioners already initiated in grid computing techniques.
—Zentralblatt MATH, 1191

This book shows, in some sense, the way to the future, where next generation middleware such as those described here will replace in the production infrastructure the more rudimentary ones in use today. Therefore, I am sure that the readers will greatly benefit from this insightful journey in the heart of the grids, a key technology in a very large number of scientific endeavors.
—From the Foreword by Guy Wormser, Institut des Grilles, CNRS, Orsay, France

From the Publisher