e-Science, Grid, and its Scalable Architecture

Author: Huang Lican / Liu Yuan'an (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book provides a detailed description of e-Science and grids. It focuses on analyzing the grid architecture OGSI, as well as a scalable, semantically based e-Science grid architecture—the Virtual Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture. It introduces the prototype system VDHA_Grid based on the Virtual Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture and, on this basis, elaborates in detail the Chinese University e-Science Grid Project based on the Ministry of Education Online Cooperation Center and its prototype system. Additionally, it offers specialized analysis of efficient and scalable service discovery protocols based on the VDHA architecture, as well as scalable security architectures and the Ontology-based Grid Service Description Language (OGSDL). This book can serve as a reference for researchers in e-Science and grids, as well as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science.