Grid computing

The Grid 2, Second Edition: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (The Elsevier Series in Grid Computing)
by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman
Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
Customer Review: I don't understand some of the critical reviews of this book. The fact is that Grids do exist today and are being used by Research oriented companies. About two dozen companies are already serving clients in the realm of grid computing. Platform Computing, United Devices, and Avaki are just three companies who are helping to create ...

Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)
by Rajkumar Buyya, Kris Bubendorfer
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: October 2009

Adaptive Information: Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)
by Jeffrey T. Pollock, Ralph Hodgson
Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
Customer Review: This book will not disappoint. For serious semantic web practitioners ( novice or pro ), this book is an invaluable asset. The text provides a very detailed and expansive commentary on the current 'state-of-art' in Semantic Technology, rich in case studies the authors hit their mark squarely.

Grid Computing for Developers (Programming Series)
by Vladimir Silva
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: Grid computing promises to be the next big wave in high performance computing. While the power of today's PC's has gotten relatively huge, easily passing the supercomputers of not so long ago, there are still certain applications in weather, nuclear physics, bioinformatics and other areas where far more computing power is needed. The...

High Performance Parallel Database Processing and Grid Databases (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)
by David Taniar, Clement H. C. Leung, Wenny Rahayu, Sushant Goel
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: October 2008

Grid Computing
by Joshy Joseph, Craig Fellenstein
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: The authors have written a fine book on the potential, execution and practicality of Grid or Utility Computing. It is large ( 400 pages ) and well written book, technically accurate and blends well with other industry strategies such as on demand and Autonomic Computing. The chapters on open standards are particularly strong, well th...

Grid Computing: Practical Guide To Technology & Applications (Programming Series)
by Ahmar Abbas
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: The newest, highest performance PC's are more powerful than the biggest supercomputers of the early 1990's. But with the higher computational capacity the bigger the tasks assigned to be computed. Note that these are not your typical business applications. The biggest computational tasks today lie in four areas: atomic energy researc...

Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing
by Yang Xiao
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Publication Date: April 2007

Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
by Pawel Plaszczak, Richard Wellner Jr. Jr.
Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews.
Customer Review: Grid Computing is coming and it's hard to separate the hype from the reality. Not to mention the fact that various companies have co-opted "Grid" to refer to things that are less than Grids. Make no mistake; this is a technology that's coming, and you, the IT Manager, Engineering Director or CEO of a technical company need to know wh...

Grid and Cloud Computing: A Business Perspective on Technology and Applications
by Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Thomas Wozniak, Santi Ristol
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: November 2009