The Grid; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 An Introduction to the Grid; Part One System Infrastructure; Part Two Basic Services; Part Three Job Management and User Interaction; Part Four Applications; Glossary; Index.
Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employ them successfully!This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and practical understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid. The authors outline all the components necessary to create a Grid infrastructure that enables support for a range of wide-area distributed applications. The Grid: Core Technologies takes a pragmatic approach with numerous practical examples of software in context. It describes the middleware components of the Grid step-by-step, and gives hands-on advice on designing and building a Grid.