""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Theory and Foundations""; ""1 The Roadmap to High-Performance Computing""; ""1.1 Evolution of Grid Technologies""; ""1.2 The Grid in a Nutshell""; ""1.3 Distributed Computing Models""; ""1.4 Computing on Demand (COD)""; ""1.5 Grids in Science and Technology""; ""1.6 Summary""; ""2 Enterprise Computing""; ""2.1 Existing Enterprise Infrastructures""; ""2.2 Integration with Grid Architectures""; ""2.3 Grid-Enabled Resource Management Models""; ""2.4 Enter Open Grid Services""; ""2.5 The Competitive IT Organization""
""2.6 Computational Economy""""2.7 Summary""; ""3 Core Grid Middleware""; ""3.1 P2P""; ""3.2 Globus""; ""3.3 Grid Computing and Business Technologies (GRIDBUS)""; ""3.4 Summary""; ""Part II: Grid Middleware""; ""4 Grid Portal Development""; ""4.1 Resource Management""; ""4.2 Data Management Portlets""; ""4.3 Troubleshooting""; ""4.4 Summary""; ""5 Schedulers""; ""5.1 An Overview of Popular Schedulers and Grid Middleware Integration""; ""5.2 Portable Batch System�OpenPBS""; ""5.3 Silver/Maui Metascheduler""; ""5.4 Sun Grid Engine (SGE)�N1 Grid Engine 6""; ""5.5 Condor-G""
""5.6 MMJFS Integration with Other Job Schedulers""""5.7 Factors for Choosing the Right Scheduler""; ""5.8 Summary""; ""6 Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)""; ""6.1 Web Services versus Grid Services""; ""6.2 OGSA Service Model""; ""6.3 Standard Interfaces""; ""6.4 Other Service Models""; ""6.5 Service Factories""; ""6.6 Lifetime Management""; ""6.7 Handles and References""; ""6.8 Service Information and Discovery""; ""6.9 Notifications""; ""6.10 Network Protocol Bindings""; ""6.11 Higher-Level services""; ""6.12 Other Interfaces""; ""6.13 Hosting Environments""