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Hardcover: 675 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In (Jul 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1558604758
ISBN-13: 978-1558604759
Product Dimensions: 23 x 20 x 4.4 cm

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Beyond the Net, say Foster, Kesselman, and a host of impressive contributors, lies the Grid. While the Net allows users everywhere to share information, the Grid will allow users to share raw computing power. The goal is to put full supercomputing capabilities into the hands of anyone who needs it while providing for more efficient use of the supercomputers of tomorrow. The potential benefits to science, government, and business may well be beyond imagination.

Foster and Kesselman have gathered together essays, proposals, and ruminations of more than 30 distinguished stars of the high-speed computing and networking world in order to do four things: make the case for developing computational grids, provide ideas on how such grids may be designed, demonstrate how the grids might be used, and point out the research still needed to make it happen. While the book was written to serve as a possible textbook in advanced networking, it makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the future of network computing.

The text covers Grid applications, the programming tools required, the services that will be provided, and an examination of Grid infrastructure. Despite being the work of so many authors, the chapters are logically arranged so that the knowledge needed to understand one chapter is provided by those that precede it. --Elizabeth Lewis --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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"This is a source book for the history of the future."
--Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Engineering, MCI Communications

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5.0 out of 5 stars Noteworthy volume hits the streets, 27 Aug 1998

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There is a lot of hype these days about the Next Generation Internet (NGI), the National Science Foundation's High Performance Connections Program to very-high broadband connection services (NSF HPC vBNS), and the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development's Internet2 Project (UCAID I2). I'd strongly recommend that anyone who is trying to figure out the what? and why? and who? of the emerging advance networks take time to read "The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure." This weighty volume provides the reader a good baseline about the applications, the programming tools, the services and the infrastructure that is being put into place to serve current and future research and education communities. The book is a collection of articles written by those who are building the various pieces. Some chapters are more easily read than others -- just as some topics are more easily understood. Whether network engineer or manager, there is something here for everyone.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book has several billion dollar business plans, 3 April 1999

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The Grid seems like a book from the future. I've bought over 100 books related to the Internet looking for ideas that could lead to a public company, but this one is the best. The Grid starts with simple comparisons (Chicago came from rail and 'caching' of grain elevators and stock yards) then gets technical. The topics are covered by experts and include distributed computing, sensing,and teleimmersion, programming tools, services, schedulers, resource management, visualization, security, protocols, Quality of Service, operating systems and interfaces. The pen-ultimate section was co-authored by recently deceased Internet Society head Jon Postel, and is my favorite. If covers the past, present and future of network infrastructure. The last section is test beds. At the risk of seeming ungrateful for this gold mine of future net business, there are a few omissions that I missed including the Grid in mixed environments. Low-earth orbit satellites and wireless IP broadband could have been covered, as they will be the very important parts of the Grid. The VR section totals only about ten pages and, surprisingly, doesn't even touch on entertainment applications, though entertainment (including porn) has driven many 'seeds of the grid', including video, CD-ROMs, and streaming video. A few books that might be interesting: Peter Glaser's Solar Power Satellites is very complementary: with cheap power everywhere, the grid can cover the earth, seas and even leap up into space. If you haven't read it already, I'd toss Kurzweil's Age of Intelligent Machines into the Amazon shopping cart to fill in the AI and VR gap. If you want to see how grids could grow into gods, I'd also highly recommend David Zindell's The Wild. I'm open to corresponding about where The Grid goes and grows from here, especially from investors with the know how or desire to capitalize on the new entities that will grow out of the grid, or be used to create it.

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