Grid computing Books
Taylor & Francis Inc Grid Computing
Book SynopsisIdentifies Recent Technological Developments WorldwideThe field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the past few years, evolving and developing in almost all areas, including concepts, philosophy, methodology, and usages. Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications reflects the recent advances in this field, covering the research aspects that involve infrastructure, middleware, architecture, services, and applications.Grid Systems Across the GlobeThe first section of the book focuses on infrastructure and middleware and presents several national and international grid systems. The text highlights China Research and Development environment Over Wide-area Network (CROWN), several ongoing cyberinfrastructure efforts in New York State, and Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), which is co-funded by the European Commission and the world's largest multidisciplinary grid infraTable of ContentsGRID INFRASTRUCTURE AND MIDDLEWARE. CROWN: A Service Grid Middleware for e-Science. Cyberinfrastructure in New York State. Enabling Grids for e-Science: The EGEE Project. ChinaGrid and Related Dependability Research. Gridbus Workflow Enactment Engine. GRID SERVICES. UK National Grid Service. Grid Resource Allocation. Grid Services Orchestration with OMII-BPEL. A Data Stream View of Scientific Workflow.Design of a Model-Based SLA Management Service and Its Applications Over Distributed SOA Environments. Portal and Workflow in Grid Computing: From Application Integration to Service Integration. Modeling P2P Grid Information Services with Colored Petri Nets. GRID APPLICATIONS. WISDOM: A Grid-Enabled Drug Discovery Initiative against Malaria. Flow Networking in Grid Simulations. Virtual Machines in Grid Environments: Dynamic Virtual Machines. High-Energy Physics Applications on the Grid. Design and Performance Evaluation of a Service-Oriented HLA RTI on the Grid. Index.
£180.50
Nova Science Publishers Inc Multi-Discipline Virtual Prototype Modeling &
Book SynopsisThe research of modelling and simulation has made great progress during the past few decades. A number of institutions and scholars from various domains have proposed different modelling theories and simulation technologies. Great variety and diversity tools and commercial software, which are mainly oriented to specific single-discipline, are rushing out and being applied in their own fields successfully. Multi-discipline virtual prototype has been applied in a wide range of engineering applications, especially the design, testing and evaluation of complex product. The growing complexity of the product and simulation system, as well as the user requirement, bring many challenges to modelling and simulation. This book examines the major theories and methods involved in modelling, simulation, optimisation, evaluation and application of multi-discipline virtual prototype, based on component oriented thinking.
£146.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Grid Computing: Techniques & Future Prospects
Book SynopsisIn the past two decades, grid computing have fostered advances in several scientific domains by making resources available to a wide community and bridging scientific gaps. Grid infrastructures have been harnessing computational resources all around the world allowing all kinds of parallelisms to be explored. Other approaches to parallel and distributed computing still exist like the use of dedicated high-performance (HPC) infrastructures, and the use of clouds for computing and storage, but grid computing continues to be the predominant technology used for scientific computing in Europe, through the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) and the European Middleware Initiative (EMI). Currently, there is a trend towards the use of cloud technologies for computing and storage. In Europe, this trend is being followed by taking advantage of all the experiences gained from building grid infrastructures and the technologies developed around them (resource management orchestration, unified job description languages, security, user interfaces, programming models, and scheduling policies, among others). As a result, the European Grid Infrastructure Federated Cloud is being built on top of the grid infrastructure already available. After almost two decades of the development of grid software and components and the emergence of competing technologies, now is the time to discuss current trends and to assess future prospects. When organising this book, the authors considered contributions that would review the current grid computing scenario as well as contributions that would summarise the main tools and technologies used so far. The chapters in this book provide reviews for the following topics: a) performance prediction for parallel and distributed computing systems, b) resource sharing on computational grids, c) economic models for resource management, and d) programming frameworks. The chapters address grid issues such as a) the challenges of designing efficient job schedulers for production grids, b) scalability analysis of bag-of-tasks applications, c) the energy efficiency of resource reservation-based scheduling, and d) the development of parallel applications using the grid environment. Additionally, the following tools are presented: a) a programming framework based on the concept of a pluggable grid service that avoids explicit calls to grid services in scientific code and b) a desktop grid framework that runs on top of a cloud and can be deployed on the fly. The authors were each invited to contribute a chapter to this book, which were carefully revised and selected based on their originality and the value of their contribution to the overall discussion on grid computing and its future prospects.
£195.19
Imperial College Press Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart
Book SynopsisThis book considers the emerging technologies and methodologies of the application of computational intelligence to smart grids.From a conceptual point of view, the smart grid is the convergence of information and operational technologies applied to the electric grid, allowing sustainable options to customers and improved levels of security. Smart grid technologies include advanced sensing systems, two-way high-speed communications, monitoring and enterprise analysis software, and related services used to obtain location-specific and real-time actionable data for the provision of enhanced services for both system operators (i.e. distribution automation, asset management, advanced metering infrastructure) and end-users (i.e. demand side management, demand response).In this context, a crucial issue is how to support the evolution of existing electrical grids from static hierarchal systems to self-organizing, highly scalable and pervasive networks. Modern trends are oriented toward the employment of computational intelligence techniques for deploying advanced control, protection and monitoring architectures that move away from the older centralized paradigm to systems distributed across the field with an increasing pervasion of intelligence devices. The large-scale deployment of computational intelligence technologies in smart grids could lead to a more efficient tasks distribution amongst energy resources and, consequently, to a sensible improvement of the electrical grid flexibility.
£76.95
