Grid computing

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

Grid and Distributed Computing: International Conference, GDC 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conferences, FGIT 2009, ... in Computer and Information Science)
by Dominik Slezak, Tai-hoon Kim, Stephen S.T. Yau, Osvaldo Gervasi, Byeong-Ho Kang
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: January 2010

Parallel Computing: Computing, High-performance computing, Instruction level parallelism, Data parallelism, Task parallelism, Multi-core, Symmetric multiprocessing, ... parallel processing, GPGPU, ...
by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome
Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
Publication Date: August 2009

Introduction to Grid Computing (Chapman and Hall/CRC Numerical Analy and Scient Comp. Series)
by Frederic Magoules, Jie Pan, Kiat-An Tan, Abhinit Kumar
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Date: March 2009

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 ...

Grid Computing: Making The Global Infrastructure a Reality
by Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G. Hey
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: If you have made the decision to read one GRID book, then this is the one. Written by recognized experts in the GRID field, the text provides a deep dive into GRID architectures, databases and various GRID standards.

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...

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