The Grid: Past, Present, Future

Abstract

The Grid is the computing and data management infrastructure that will provide the electronic underpinning for a global society in business, government, research, science and entertainment [1][2][3][4][5]. Grids, illustrated in Figure 1.1, integrate networking, communication, computation and information to provide a virtual platform for computation and data management in the same way that the Internet integrates resources to form a virtual platform for information. The Grid is transforming science, business, health and society. In this book we consider the Grid in depth, describing its immense promise, potential and complexity from the perspective of the community of individuals working hard to make the Grid vision a reality.Grid infrastructure will provide us with the ability to dynamically link together resources as an ensemble to support the execution of large-scale, resource-intensive, and distributed applications.Grid Computing -Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality.

Novel runtime systems support for adaptive compositional modeling in PSEs

“…This viewpoint leads to scientific codes being organized in a model-based framework for adaptive composition, execution, and performance analysis. As Berman et al point out [Berman et al, 2003], "we still cannot throw any application at the Grid and have resource management software determine where and how it will run. "…”

Data issues at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change

“…Despite the classical approaches, data-gridenabled solutions (Berman et al 2003;Foster 2005;Foster et al 2001) greatly address scalability (users, data, queries, etc. ), transparency (access, integration, management, presentation) and efficiency (performance) allowing the management of huge and distributed datasets.…”

Secure and reliable Java-based middleware - challenges and solutions

“…Service-oriented computing aims at the construction of applications by composing services (components) [22]. Grid computing focuses on the dynamic deployment of components in order to optimize resource usage [3,14].…”

“…For instance, the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is designed for component-oriented application development. Current Java-based application servers, such as JBoss 1 , BEA WebLogic 2 , or IBM WebSphere 3 , support the popular Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component model [23].…”