Book Description:

Many industry analysts believe that Grid computing will be the next big wavein technology. It is so promising that major technology companies such as IBN,Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun are allocating significant quantities of resourcesfor Grid research and development. A Developer’s Guide to Grid Computingexplores the evolution of Grid computing from the early distributed computerparadigm to the modern Grid environments. Most of today’s Grid environmentswill be examined including OGSA, Resource Managers, and MPI. The book alsoexplores today’s de facto standards for Grid computing including acomprehensive guide to the Globus Toolkit for developers covering installation,system administration, development guides for Grid services, open Grid servicesarchitectures for WSRF, commodity Grid kits for Java, Perl, and OGSA-C, andperformance evaluation tests. A significant amount of source code samplesaccompanies each chapter. A Developers Guide to Grid Computing is an idealresource for computer scientists and researches, graduate students, and ITprofessionals looking to further expand their Grid Computing skills.

Key Features:

• Teaches developers today’s standards for Grid computing
• Provides a comprehensive guide to the Globus Toolkit for developers covering installation, system administration, development guides for Grid services architectures, Web Services Resource Framework (WERF), commodity Grid kits for Java, Perl, and OGSA-C, and performance evaluation tests
• Explores the evolution of Grid computing from the early distributed computing paradigm to the modern Grid environments
• Includes comparisons between today’s Grid computing environments (OGSA, WSRF) and parallel APIs, such as MPI
• Features a companion CD-ROM with all the code and figures from the book

On the CD:

Projects: Contains all the code from examples covered in the book bychapter
Images: Contains all the images in the book, in color, by chapter

Book Details:

• Author: Vladimir Silva
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (December 30, 2005)
• Paperback: 400 pages 
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584504242 
• List $49.95