文档介绍：The Grid:
Blueprint for a New
Computing Infrastructure
Second Edition
The Elsevier Series in puting
Series Editors: Ian Foster, Agonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, and Carl Kesselman,
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
The Grid is a rapidly puting structure that ponents of our information
technology putational capabilities, databases, sensors, and people—to be
shared flexibly as true collaborative tools.
The Elsevier Series in puting examines how the puting vision is being
made a reality and the implications of Grid technologies puting, industry, science, and
society. Titles in the series are authored by leading experts and make the necessary connections
between puting working; Information Technology; Database Management;
Programming Languages, Tools pilers; Security; Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Architecture and Design and puting disciplines.
Series Editors Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman are the editors of The Grid 2, the premier and flag-
ship volume in this series.
The Grid:
Blueprint for a New
Computing Infrastructure
Second Edition
Edited by
Ian Foster
Argonne National Laboratory
and the University of Chicago
Carl Kesselman
Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California
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