High performance computing and grids in action / edited by Lucio Grandinetti.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine derived contents note: Foreword v -- Gerhard R. Joubert -- Editor's Preface vii -- Lucio Grandinetti -- List of Contributors ix -- Advancement of the State of the Art in Scientific Software and Infrastructure -- Human-Machine Symbiosis, 50 Years On 3 -- lan Foster -- Chapter 1. Systems and Solutions for Advanced Distributed Computing and -- for High Performance Computing and Networking -- Exploiting Mixed Precision Floating Point Hardware in Scientific Computations 19 -- Alfi-edo Buttari, Jack Dongarra, Jakub Kurzak, Julie Langou, -- Julien Langou, Piotr Luszczek and Stanimire Tomov -- A Model for the Design and Programming of Multi-Cores 37 -- Chris Jesshope -- Pegasus and DAGMan from Concept to Execution: Mapping Scientific -- Workflows onto Today's Cyberinfrastructure 56 -- Ewa Deelman, Miron Livny, Gaurang Mehta, Andy Pavlo, Gurmeet Singh, -- Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi and R. Kent Wenger -- Building an Infrastructure for Urgent Computing 75 -- Pete Beckman, Ivan Beschastnikh, Suman Nadella and Nick Trebon -- Network Communication as a Service-Oriented Capability 96 -- William Johnston, Joe Metzger, Mike 0 'Connor, Michael Collins, -- Joseph Burrescia, Eli Dart, Jim Gagliardi, Chin Guok and Kevin Oberman -- Chapter 2. Grid Fundamentals -- An Infrastructure for the Deployment of e-Science Applications 131 -- Wojtek James Goscinski and David Abramson -- Building e-Science Portals: A Service Oriented Architecture 149 -- Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Yi Huang, Scott Jensen, -- Ning Litu, Suresh Marru, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Srinath Perera, -- Satoshi Shirisuna, Yogesh Simmhan, Aleksander Slominski, Yiming Sun -- and Nithya Vijavakumar -- A New Resource Brokering and Scheduling Solution for a Grid Environment 167 -- Lucio Grandinetti, Maria Carmen Incutti and Francesco Mari -- Challenges of Scale: When All Computing Becomes Grid Computing 186 -- Robert J Fowler, Todd Gamblin, Gopi Kandaswamy, Anirban Mandal, -- Allan K Porterfield, Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Daniel A. Reed -- Job Scheduling on the Grid: Towards SLA-Based Scheduling 207 -- Rizos Sakellariou and Viktor Yarmolenko -- Chapter 3. Grid Technology -- TeraGrid: Analysis of Organization, System Architecture, and Middleware -- Enabling New Types of Applications 225 -- Charlie Catlett, William E. Allcock, Phil Andrews, Ruth Aydt, Ray Bair, -- Natasha Balac, Bryan Banister, Trish Barker, Mark Bartelt, Pete Beckman, -- Francine Berman, Gary Bertoline, Alan Blatecky, Jay Boisseau, -- Jim Bottum, Sharon Brunett, Julian Bunn, Michelle Butler, David Carver, -- John Cobb, Tim Cockerill, Peter F. Couvares, Maytal Dahan, Diana Diehl, -- Thom Dunning, Ian Foster, Kelly Gaither, Dennis Gannon, -- Sebastien Goasguen, Michael Grobe, Dave Hart, Matt Heinzel, -- Chris Hempel, Wendy Huntoon, Joseph Insley, Christopher Jordan, -- Ivan Judson, Anke Kamrath, Nicholas Karonis, Carl Kesselman, -- Patricia Kovatch, Lex Lane, Scott Lathrop, Michael Levine, David Li/ka, -- Lee Liming, Miron Livny, Rich Loft, Doru Marcusiu, Jim Marsteller, -- Stuart Martin, Scott McCaulay, John McGee, Laura McGinnis, -- Michael McRobbie, Paul Messina, Reagan Moore, Richard Moore, -- J.P. Navarro, JeffNichols, Michael E. Papka, Rob Pennington, Greg Pike, -- Jim Pool, Raghu Reddy, Dan Reed, Tony Rimovsky, Eric Roberts, -- Ralph Roskies, Sergiu Sanielevici, J. Ray Scott, Anurag Shankar, -- Mark Sheddon, Mike Showerman, Derek Simmel, Abe Singer, Dane Skow, -- Shava Smallen, Warren Smith, Carol Song, Rick Stevens, Craig Stewart, -- Robert B. Stock, Nathan Stone, John Towns, Tomislav Urban, -- Mike Vildibill, Edward Walker, Von Welch, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, -- Roy Williams, Linda Winkler, Lan Zhao and Ann Zimmerman -- Applying the Provenance Data Model to a Bioinformatics Case 250 -- Paul Groth, Steve Munroe, Simon Miles and Luc Moreau -- Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0 265 -- Marlon E. Pierce, Geoffrey Fox, Huapeng Yuan and Yu Deng -- BabelPeers: P2P Based Semantic Grid Resource Discovery 288 -- Dominic Battri, Felix Heine, Andre Hding and Odej Kao -- Data Integration Based on Schema-Mapping in Service-Based Grids 308 -- Carmela Comito and Domenico Talia -- Chapter 4. Grids and High Performance Computing in Action -- The GRelC Project: State of the Art and Future Directions 331 -- Sandro Fiore, Massinto Caaro, Maria Mirto, Salvatore Vadacca, -- Alessandro Negro and Giovanni Aloisio -- Service-Based Access to and Processing of Large Scientific Datasets 345 -- Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Olcay Sertel, -- Jun Kong, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Tony Pan, Ashish Sharma, -- Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Tahsin Kurc, -- Metin Gurcan and Joel Saltz -- A Feature-Rich Workflow Description Language that Supports Resource -- Co-Allocations 363 -- Yonghong Yan and Barbara M. Chapman -- Parallelization and Scalability of Multiplayer Online Games via State -- Replication 384 -- Jens Miiller-Iden, Sergei Gorlatch and Tobias Schr6ter -- ImageGrid: An Image Processing Grid Based on CGSP 403 -- Hai Jin, Ran Zheng and Qin Zhang -- The EGEE-II Project: Evolution Towards a Permanent European Grid Initiative 424 -- Owen Appleton, Bob Jones, Dieter Kranzlmrniller and Erwin Laure -- Innovative Grid Technologies Applied to Bioinformatics and Hurricane -- Mitigation 436 -- Rosa Badia, Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Liana Fong, -- Howard Ho, Sawsan Khuri, Yanbin Liu, Steve Luis, Anthony Praino, -- Jean-Pierre Prost, Ahmed Radwan, Seyed Masoud Sadiadi, -- Shivkunmar Shivaji, Balaji Viswanathan, Patrick Welsh and Akmal Younis -- Computer Science Grids 463 -- Franck Cappello and Henri Bal -- An e-Marketplace Model for Logistics Services Based on Grid Technology 482 -- Maria Carmen Incutti and Francesco Mari -- Challenges Facing Production Grids 506 -- Ruth Pordes -- Subject Index 523 -- Author Index 525.