Foster what is the grid

Today there is a broader and deeper understanding of the nature of the opportunities offered by Grid computing and the technologies needed to realize those opportunities.

In Grid 2, the editors reveal the revolutionary impact of large-scale resource sharing and virtualization within science and industry, the intimate relationships between organization and resource sharing structures and the new technologies required to enable secure, reliable, and efficient resource sharing on large scale.

Foster and Kesselman have once again assembled a team of experts to present an up-to-date view of Grids that reports on real experiences and explains the available technologies and new technologies emerging from labs, companies and standards bodies.

Grid 2, like its predecessor, serves as a manifesto, design blueprint, user guide and research agenda for future Grid systems. Computing executives and strategists, system designers, technical professionals, academics, graduate students in distributed parallel computing and grid computing.

There is also more material on developing standards, policy, and management. These are true signs of a maturing technology. I hold firm that the Grid will have significant impact on more aspects and segments of IT than the designers originally conceived. This extremely readable collection provides a detailed roadmap for creating a global platform that enables this transformation.

Most fascinating, to me, is how the Grid creates a technical artifact around which the social practices of science will evolve. Cultures form around artifacts,which is why this book is so important. The Grid and web services technologies are enabling pioneering, distributed applications that begin to fulfil the vision. Eventually we"ll look back on the resulting standardization for interoperation as the real revolution.

The standards and discipline will enable a new form of software construction, delivery, and even restructure the software industry. If yes, put your money down, and buy this book. I congratulate the authors. The two editors of this book, Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, played a leading role in this transformation.

This new edition of The Grid reflects this change. Like the original edition, it is likely to become the one essential reference about the Grid, as well as an excellent introduction to the technologies that are used in the Grid infrastructure. Guaranteed to be thought provoking and an excellent source of information.

His research concerns techniques, tools, and algorithms for high-performance distributed computing, parallel computing, and computational science. Foster led the research and development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases, and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America a live experiment at the Supercomputing conference of GUSTO pushes the technological envelope by using high-speed networks and software to provide global access to advanced supercomputers and other devices.

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