Grid Computing in Research and Education

Grid Computing in Research and Education

by Luis Ferreira, Fabiano Lucchese, Tomoari Yasuda, Chin Yau Lee, Carlos Alexandre Queiroz, Elton Minetto, Antonio Saverio Rincon Mungioli
Released April 2005
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM Redbooks publication, Grid Computing in Research and Education, belongs to a series of documents related to grid computing that IBM is presenting to the community to enrich the IT industry and all its players: customers, industry leaders, emerging enterprises, universities, and producers of technology. It is mainly oriented to IT architects or those whom have the responsibility of analyzing the capabilities to build in a grid solution.

Part 1 presents the basics about what, why and how grid can be applied to the research and education fields.

Part 2 presents a collection of examples of real-world grid implementations that have been accomplished in the research and education world.

Part 3 describes the Teragrid project, a cyber-infrastructure that aims to solve the problem of emerging terascale applications. It also provides a hypothetical example of a research oriented grid involving multiple schedulers and multiple different components and services.

Table of contents

  1. Figures
  2. Tables
  3. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  4. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook (1/2)
    2. The team that wrote this redbook (2/2)
    3. Become a published author
    4. Comments welcome
  5. Part 1: Introduction
    1. Chapter 1: Introduction to grid concepts
      1. Beginning of the grid concept
        1. Research and education on grid context
      2. Applicability
        1. Why use grids in research and education?
        2. Leveraging research activities with grids
        3. Leveraging educational activities with grids
      3. What will the future bring?
        1. What exists today
        2. What is the potential for grids
        3. What is likely to happen
    2. Chapter 2: How to implement a grid
      1. Introduction
        1. The main difficulties
        2. Approaches
      2. Basic requirements
        1. Hardware requirements
        2. Software requirements
        3. Human-resource requirements
      3. Setting up grid environments
        1. Defining the architecture
        2. Hardware setup
        3. Software setup
      4. Setting up grid applications
        1. Deploying an application
        2. Making application data available
      5. Maintaining grids
        1. Grid platform administration tasks
        2. Grid application administration tasks
  6. Part 2: Grid by examples
    1. Chapter 3: Introducing the examples
      1. What you will find in these chapters
    2. Chapter 4: Scientific simulation
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    3. Chapter 5: Medical images
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    4. Chapter 6: Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    5. Chapter 7: Big Science
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    6. Chapter 8: e-Learning
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    7. Chapter 9: Visualization
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
    8. Chapter 10: Microprocessor design
      1. Introduction
        1. Business context
        2. Business needs
      2. Case analysis
        1. Requirements
        2. Use-cases
      3. Case design
        1. Component model diagram
        2. Component model description
        3. Architectural decisions and product selection
      4. Implementation
      5. Conclusion
  7. Part 3: Appendixes
    1. Appendix A: TeraGrid
      1. Introduction
      2. Organization
      3. Beneficiaries
      4. How to join
    2. Appendix B: Research oriented grid
      1. Introduction
      2. Business requirements
      3. High level design (1/2)
      4. High level design (2/2)
      5. Products used
      6. Conclusion
  8. Glossary
  9. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  10. Index (1/2)
  11. Index (2/2)
  12. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Grid Computing in Research and Education
  • Author(s): Luis Ferreira, Fabiano Lucchese, Tomoari Yasuda, Chin Yau Lee, Carlos Alexandre Queiroz, Elton Minetto, Antonio Saverio Rincon Mungioli
  • Release date: April 2005
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None