Engineering the Grid: Status and Perspective - Hardcover

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Five widespread editors affiliated, respectively, with Second U. of Napoli (Italy), U. of Tennessee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, St. Francis Xavier U. (Canada), and the California Institute of Technology bring together 34 contributions (from authors based in Europe, Asia, and North America) describing recent research achievements in grid technology, applications, and large-scale projects. An overview of heterogeneous high performance and grid computing is followed by discussion of multi-objective optimization, air quality prediction, media-streaming, bioinformatics, the European GridLab Project, various aspects of programming languages and environments, resource management and scheduling, platforms, visualization, and the semantic grid, among other topics. The subject is of fundamental importance for researchers and technical managers in virtually all areas of science, engineering, and economics. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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