Network Computing Core Technology

Author: (USA) Li, M., (USA) Baker, M. (), Wang Xianglin et al. ()
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Publish Date: 2007-01-08
Features: This monograph provides a comprehensive, clear, systematic, and practical technical explanation of how to build networks. The book outlines the essential components required to create a grid infrastructure. Network systems support a wide range of wide-area distributed applications. It adopts a practical approach, supplemented by numerous software examples, and describes network middleware components in a step-by-step manner. It also provides practical suggestions for designing and building grid environments and writing applications using the Globus Toolkit. The main content introduces new technologies supporting grids. It offers a systematic explanation of the network, including its infrastructure, basic services, job management, user interaction, and applications. It elaborates on OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture), Web service technologies (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), and network monitoring. It covers portal-based Web tools such as JavaGoG, GridPort, GridSphere, and JSR168Portlet. It highlights hot technologies such as WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework), semantic grids, grid security infrastructure, and workflow systems. It provides examples to enhance understanding and usage of grid components and related tools. For researchers and professionals in the field of computational engineering, distributed computing IT professionals, and grid end-users such as physicists, statisticians, biologists, and chemists, this book is an essential read.