Abstract

architecture, and implementation of Grid systems—a picture that will then be filled out in the chapters that follow. This chapter thus both introduces Grids and provides a road map for the rest of the book. The term “the Grid” was coined in the mid-1990s to denote a (then) proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering. Much progress has since been made on the construction of such an infrastructure and on its extension and application to commercial computing problems. And while the term “Grid” has also been on occasion conflated to embrace everything from advanced networking and computing clusters to artificial intelligence, there has also emerged a good understanding of the problems that Grid technologies address, and at least a first set of applications for which they are suited. Grid concepts and technologies were originally developed to enable resource sharing within scientific collaborations, first within early gigabit/sec testbeds (161, 163) and then on increasingly larger scales (108, 137, 394, 610). As discussed in Chapter 2, applications in this context include distributed computing for computationally demanding data analyses (pooling of compute power and storage; eg, Chapter 10), the federation of diverse distributed datasets (eg, Chapters 7–9), collaborative visualization of large scientific datasets (pooling of expertise), and coupling of scientific instruments with remote computers and archives (increasing functionality as well as availability, eg, Chapters 1: 4 and 1: 6). A common theme underlying these different usage modalities is a need for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in …

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publication

The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 2003

year

2003

publication date

2003/12/2

authors

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman

link

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0l5gm6o3vrMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA37&dq=info:rWH0yoqa5lQJ:scholar.google.com&ots=hsGiqQKBod&sig=hJKzfFPPF8yMnv_mWe7kEOtNUwk

source

The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure

publisher

Elsevier