Grid Resource Management: Towards Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management: Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing presents a comprehensive account of the architectural issues of grid technology, such as security, data management, logging, and aggregation of services, as well as related technologies.

After covering grid usages, grid systems, and the evolution of grid computing, the book discusses operational issues associated with web services and service-oriented architecture. It also explores technical and business topics relevant to data management, the development and characteristics of P2P systems, and a grid-enabled virtual file system (GRAVY) that integrates underlying heterogeneous file systems into a unified location-transparent file system of the grid. The book covers scheduling algorithms, strategies, problems, and architectures as well as workflow management systems and semantic technologies. In addition, the authors describe how to deploy scientific applications into a grid environment. They also explain grid engineering and grid service programming.

Examining both data and execution management in grid computing, this book chronicles the current trend of grid developments toward a more service-oriented approach that exposes grid protocols using web services standards.

An Overview of Grid Computing Introduction Classifying grid usages Classifying grid systems Definitions Evolution of grid computing
Grid Computing and Web Services Introduction Web services Web services protocols and technology Grid services
Data Management in Grid EnvironmentsIntroduction The scientific challenges Major data grid efforts today Data management challenges in grid environmentsOverview of existing solutions
Peer-to-Peer Data Management IntroductionDefining peer-to-peer Data location and routing algorithms Shortcomings and improvements of P2P systems
Grid-Enabled Virtual File Systems Introduction Background Data access problems in the grid Related workGRAVY: GRid-enAbled Virtual file sYstemArchitectural issues Use casesExperimental results
Scheduling Grid Services Introduction Scheduling algorithms and strategies Architecture Service discovery Resource information Data-intensive service scheduling Fault tolerant
Workflow Design and Portal Overview Management systemsWorkflow specification languagesScheduling and reschedulingPortal integrationA case study on the use of workflow technologies for scientific analysis
Semantic Web Introduction Semantic gridSemantic web servicesSemantic matching of web servicesSemantic workflow
Integration of Scientific Applications Introduction FrameworkImplementationSecurityEvaluation
Potential for Engineering and Scientific Computations Introduction Grid applicationsGrid projectsGrid service programming
Conclusions Summary Future for grid computing
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Index
Concluding Remarks and References appear at the end of each chapter.