High Performance Computing and Grids in Action

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Advancement of science and technology and its impact on real life applications is more and more strictly related to the progress and availability of high performance parallel computer systems and grids, the novel networked infrastructures aimed to organize and optimize the use of a huge amount of distributed data processing and computing resources. This book collects in four chapters single monographs related to the fundamental advances in parallel computer systems and their future developments from different points of view (from computer scientists, computer manufacturers, end users) and related to the establishment and evolution of grids fundamentals, implementation and deployment. The aim is to cover different points of view in the field by actors playing different roles, to orchestrate and correlate their interconnection and coherence, and - above all - to show behaviors, impacts, performances of architectures, systems, services and organizations in action. Accordingly, the expected audience would be broad, mainly made up by computer scientists, Ph.D. students, post-doc researchers, specialists of computing and data centers, computer engineers and architects, project leaders, information system planners and professional technologists.

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Author(s): Lucio Grandinetti, Lucio Grandinetti
Series: Advances in parallel computing 16
Publisher: IOS Press
Year: 2008

Language: English
Commentary: 76932
Pages: 552
City: Amsterdam; Washington, DC

Title page......Page 1
Foreword......Page 5
Editor’s Preface......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 9
Contents......Page 21
Advancement of the State of the Art in Scientific Software and Infrastructure......Page 25
Human-Machine Symbiosis, 50 Years On......Page 27
Systems and Solutions for Advanced Distributed Computing and for High Performance Computing and Networking......Page 41
Exploiting Mixed Precision Floating Point Hardware in Scientific Computations......Page 43
A Model for the Design and Programming of Multi-Cores......Page 61
Pegasus and DAGMan from Concept to Execution: Mapping Scientific Workflows onto Today’s Cyberinfrastructure......Page 80
Building an Infrastructure for Urgent Computing......Page 99
Network Communication as a Service-Oriented Capability......Page 120
Grid Fundamentals......Page 153
An Infrastructure for the Deployment of e-Science Applications......Page 155
Building e-Science Portals: A Service Oriented Architecture......Page 173
A New Resource Brokering and Scheduling Solution for a Grid Environment......Page 191
Challenges of Scale: When All Computing Becomes Grid Computing......Page 210
Job Scheduling on the Grid: Towards SLA-Based Scheduling......Page 231
Grid Technology......Page 247
TeraGrid: Analysis of Organization, System Architecture, and Middleware Enabling New Types of Applications......Page 249
Applying the Provenance Data Model to a Bioinformatics Case......Page 274
Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0......Page 289
BabelPeers: P2P Based Semantic Grid Resource Discovery......Page 312
Data Integration Based on Schema-Mapping in Service-Based Grids......Page 332
Grids and High Performance Computing in Action......Page 353
The GRelC Project: State of the Art and Future Directions......Page 355
Service-Based Access to and Processing of Large Scientific Datasets......Page 369
A Feature-Rich Workflow Description Language that Supports Resource Co-Allocations......Page 387
Parallelization and Scalability of Multiplayer Online Games via State Replication......Page 408
ImageGrid: An Image Processing Grid Based on CGSP......Page 427
The EGEE-II Project: Evolution Towards a Permanent European Grid Initiative......Page 448
Innovative Grid Technologies Applied to Bioinformatics and Hurricane Mitigation......Page 460
Computer Science Grids......Page 487
An e-Marketplace Model for Logistics Services Based on Grid Technology......Page 506
Challenges Facing Production Grids......Page 530
Subject Index......Page 547
Author Index......Page 549