The Grid 2

Part I: Perspectives 1. Grids in Context 2. The Scientific Imperative 3. The Industrial Imperative

Part II: Framework 4. Concepts and Architecture

Part III: Applications 5. Predictive Maintenance: Distributed Aircraft Engine Diagnostics 6. Distributed Telepresence: The NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory 7. Scientific Data Federation: The World Wide Telescope 8. Medical Data Federation: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network 9. Knowledge Integration: In silico Experiments in Bioinformatics 10. Distributed Data Analysis: Federated Computing for High Energy Physics 11. Massively Distributed Computing: Virtual Screening on a Desktop Grid 12. Enterprise Resource Management: Applications in Research and Industry 13. Interactivity with Scalability: Infrastructure for Multiplayer Games 14. Service Virtualization: Infrastructure and Applications 15. Group-Oriented Collaboration: The Access Grid Collaboration System 16. Collaborative Science: Astrophysics Requirements and Experiences

Part IV: Architecture 17. The Open Grid Services Architecture 18. Resource and Service Management 19. Building Reliable Clients and Services 20. Instrumentation and Monitoring 21. Security for Virtual Organizations: Federating Trust and Policy Domains

Part V Data and Knowledge 22. Data Access, Integration and Management 23. Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and Semantics

Part VI: Tools 24. Application-Level tools 25. Languages, Compilers, and Runtime System 26. Application Tuning and Adaptation

Part VII: Infrastructure 27. Production Deployment: Experiences and Recommendations 28. Computing Elements 29. Peer-to-Peer Technologies 30. Network Infrastructure 31. Bibliography

Ian Foster is Senior Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he also leads the Distributed Systems Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. 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 1995). Most recently Carl Kesselman received international recognition for GUSTO, the world's first high-performance computational grid. GUSTO pushes the technological envelope by using high-speed networks and software to provide global access to advanced supercomputers and other devices.

I am struck by the increased emphasis on applications---50% more pages and 4 times the number of chapters---than in the first edition. 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. The rich experiences in this book will convince the reader as well -Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard The "doing of science" s at an inflection point: Computation, collaboration, visualization and smart storage lie at the heart of what science in the 21st century requires. 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. -John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), co-author of The Social Life of Information, HBSP 2000 The Grid, 2nd Edition, extends a vision and agenda for another decade. 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. -Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Foster and Kesselman have done a great job in documenting the promises and challenges of GRIDs as they evolve from their distributed computing roots to support the virtualization of applications. -Robert Aiken, Director of Engineering Academic Research and Technology Initiatives (ARTI), Cisco Systems Inc. Do

"I am struck by the increased emphasis on applications---50% more pages and 4 times the number of chapters---than in the first edition. 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. The rich experiences in this book will convince the reader as well" --Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard

"The "doing of science" s at an inflection point: Computation, collaboration, visualization and smart storage lie at the heart of what science in the 21st century requires. 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." --John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), co-author of The Social Life of Information, HBSP 2000

"The Grid, 2nd Edition, extends a vision and agenda for another decade. 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." --Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft

"Foster and Kesselman have done a great job in documenting the promises and challenges of GRIDs as they evolve from their distributed computing roots to support the virtualization of applications."