Research Catalog

Title

The grid : blueprint for a new computing infrastructure / edited by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman.

Publication

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Foster, Ian, 1959-
• Kesselman, Carl.

Description

xxiv, 677 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

The grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple regional and national computational grids, creating a universal source of pervasive and dependable computing power that supports dramatically new classes of applications. The Grid provides a clear vision of what computational grids are, why we need them, who will use them, and how they will be programmed.

Subject

• Computational grids (Computer systems)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-644) and index.

Contents

• 1. Grids in Context / Larry Smarr -- 2. Computational Grids / Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman -- 3. Distributed Supercomputing Applications / Paul Messina -- 4. Realtime Widely Distributed Instrumentation Systems / William E. Johnston -- 5. Data-Intensive Computing / Reagan W. Moore, Chaitanya Baru and Richard Marciano [et al.] -- 6. Teleimmersion / Tom DeFanti and Rick Stevens -- 7. Application-Specific Tools / Henri Casanova, Jack Dongarra and Chris Johnson [et al.] -- 8. Compilers, Languages, and Libraries / Ken Kennedy -- 9. Object-Based Approaches / Dennis Gannon and Andrew Grimshaw -- 10. High-Performance Commodity Computing / Geoffrey C. Fox and Wojtek Furmanski -- 11. The Globus Toolkit / Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman -- 12. High-Performance Schedulers / Francine Berman -- 13. High-Throughput Resource Management / Miron Livny and Rajesh Raman -- 14. Instrumentation and Measurement / Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth and Bart Miller --
• 15. Performance Analysis and Visualization / Daniel Reed and Randy Ribler -- 16. Security, Accounting, and Assurance / Clifford Neuman -- 17. Computing Platforms / Andrew A. Chien -- 18. Network Protocols / P. M. Melliar-Smith and Louise E. Moser -- 19. Network Quality of Service / Roch Guerin and Henning Schulzrinne -- 20. Operating Systems and Network Interfaces / Peter Druschel and Larry L. Peterson -- 21. Network Infrastructure / Jon Postel and Joe Touch -- 22. Testbeds: Bridges from Research to Infrastructure / Charlie Catlett and John Toole.

ISBN

1558604758

LCCN

98030570

OCLC

ocm39633415

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries