Grid computing the savvy manager's guide
A decade ago, the corporate world viewed grid computing as a curiosity. Today, it views it as an opportunity--a chance to reduce costs, improve performance, fund new projects, and take advantage of under-utilized capacity. The engineering behind this transformation has been amply documented. Until n...
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Savvy manager's guides.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627276106719 |
Table of Contents:
- front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Foreword; Preface; Motivation; Audience; Organization; Acknowledgments; body; 1 Introduction; Problems of Today and Promise of Grid Computing; A Vision of the Grid; The Feel of the Grid Today; Chapter 1 Summary; 2 The Basics; This Chapter in Two Paragraphs; Scientific Roots; Business Perspective; Business Meets Academia; 3 Grid Computing Enters Business; How the Market Understands Grids; What Is the Market?; Who Is Who: The Ecosystem of the Grid; The Panorama of Today's Products; Chapter 3 Summary; 4 Joining the Grid
- Strategies for ParticipatingWhat Does It Mean to ""Plug in""?; What Does It Mean to Provide a Grid-Enabled Solution?; Chapter 4 Summary; 5 Technical Issues; High-Level System Design; Side Trip: Analogies; Technology Areas; Data Management and Databases; Storage Management; Resource Management; Workflow Management; Guaranteed Execution; Security; 6 Management Issues; Building and Selling Grid Business Case; Change and Transition Period Management; Risk Mitigation; Chapter 6 Summary; back matter; Afterword; index
