Part 1 Grid Computing

CHAPTER1 Introduction

Early Grid Activities

Data

Computation

Computational and Data Grids

Current Grid Activities

An Overview of Grid Business Areas

Life Sciences

Financial Analysis and Services

Research Collaboration

Engineering and Design

Collaborative Games

Govemment

Grid Applications

Schedulers

Resource Broker

Load Balancing

Grid Portals

Integrated Solutions

Grid Infrastructure

Conclusion

Notes

Part 2 Grid Computing Worldwide Initiatives

CHAPTER 2 Grid Computing Organizations and Their Roles

Organizations Developing Grid Standards and Best Practice Guidelines

Global Grid Forum(GGF)

Organizations Developing Grid Computing Toolkits and the Framework

Globus

Legion

Condor and Condor-G

Nimrod

UNICORE(UNiform Interface to COmputer REsource)

NSF Middleware Initiative(NMI)

Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions to Solve Computing,Data,and Network Requirements

United States Department of Energy:Science Grid(DOE)

European Union:EUROGRID Project

European Union:Data Grid Project

TeraGrid

NASA Information Power Grid(IPG)

Commercial Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions

Notes

CHAPTER 3 The Grid Computing Anatomy

The Grid Problem

The Concept of Virtual Organizations

Grid Architecture

Grid Architecture and Relationship to Other Distributed Technologies

Summary

Notes

CHAPTER 4 The Grid Computing Road Map

Autonomic Computing

Business On Demand and Infrastructure Virtualization

Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid

Semantic Grids

Summary

Notes

Part 3 The New Generation of Grid Computing Applications

CHAPTER 5 Merging the Grid Services Architecture with the Web Services Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture

Web Service Architecture

XML,Related Technologies,and Their Relevance to Web Services

XML Messages and Enveloping

SOAP

The SOAP Processing Model

SOAP Features

Message Exchange Pattern

SOAP Modules

Service Message Description Mechanisms

Web Service Description Language(WSDL)

The Global XML Architecture Vision

Service Policy

Policy Expressions and Assertions

Security

Attaining Message integrity

Some High-Level GXA Security Standards

Addressing(WS-Addressing)

Relationship between Web Service and Grid Service

Interaction Aware State Information

Application Aware State Information

Web Service Interoperability and the Role of the WS-I Organization

Introduction to Basic Profile Guidelines

Some Details on the Basic Profile,with Samples

WSDL Document Structure

Notes

Part 4 The Grid Computing Technological Viewpoints

CHAPTER 6 Open Grid Services Architecture(OGSA)

Introduction

OGSA Architecture and Goal

CHAPTER 7 Some Sample Use Cases that Drive the OGSA

Commercial Data Center(CDC)

Summary

Customers/Providers(Actors)

Scenarios

Functional Requirements on OGSA

National Fusion Collaboratory(NFS)

Summaty

Customers(Actors)

Scenarios

Functional Requirements on OGSA

Online Media and Entertainment

Summary

Actors

Scenarios

Functional Requirements on OGSA

Summary

Note

CHAPTER 8 The OGSA Platform Components

Native Platform Services and Transport Mechanisms

OGSA Hosting Environment

Core Networking Services Transport and Security

OGSA Infrastructure

OGSA Basic Services

Summary

CHAPTER 9 Open Grid Services Infrastructure(OGSI)

Introduction

Grid Services

A High-Level Introduction to OGSI

Technical Details of OGSl Specification

OGSI and Its Use of WSDL

Significance of Transforming GWSDL to WSDL Definition

Operator Overloading Support in OGSI Port Type

Introduction to Service Data Concepts

How to Declare Service Data with a portType

Service Data Structure

How Mutability Attributes Affect Service Data

Types of Service Data Elements and Service Data Values

The GWSDL portType Inheritance Afiects the Service Data

Qualifying Service Data Element with Lifetime Attributes

Summary on OGSI-Defined Service Data Concepts

Grid Service:Naming and Change Management Recommendations

Grid Service Instance Handles,References,and Usage Models

Recommended GSR Encoding in WSDL

Life Cycle ofa Grid Service Instance

Service Lifecycle Management Using a Soft-State Approach

Service Operation Extensibility Features of Grid Services

Service Fault Handling in OGSI

Grid Service Interfaces

Inside the GridService portType

Grid Service-Provided Service Data Query Capabilities:Syntax and Semantics

Grid Service-Provided Service Data Update Capabilities:Syntax and Semantics

Grid Service Factory Concepts

Grid Service Hand le Resolution Concepts

OGSI-Defined Grid Service Notification Framework

Service Grouping Concepts in OGSI

Membership Rules for a Service Group

Service Entries in a Service Group

ServiceGroup Entry

A Simple Registry Utilizing the OGSI Service Group Concepts

Grid Services and Client Programming Models

Grid Services and Service Programming Model

Summary

Notes

CHAPTER 10 OGSA Basic Services

Common Management Model(CMM)

Manageability Interfaces

Domain-Specific Interfaces

New Constructs for Resource Modeling

CMM-Defined Manageability Interfaces

Resource Modeling Concepts

Resource Lifecycle Modeling

Resource Grouping Concepts in CMM

Relationship and Dependency among Resources

Summary

Service Domains

Summary

Policy Architecture

Levels of Policy Abstraction

A Sample Policy Service Framework

Policy Service Interfaces

WS-Policy Overview and Its Relation to OGSA Policy

Summary

Security Architecture

OGSA Security Architecture

Security Services

Binding Security

Policy Expression and Exchange

Secure Association

Identity and Credential Mapping/Translation

Authorization Enforcement

Privacy Enforcement

Trust

Core Security Services for OGSA

Summary

Metering and Accounting

Metering Service Interface

Rating Service Interface

Accounting Service Interface

Billing/Payment Service Interface

Summary

Common Distributed Logging

Distributed Data Access and Replication

Conceptual Model

Service Implementation

Summary

Conclusion

Notes

Part 5 The Grid Computing Toolkits

CHAPTER 11 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit:Architecture

GT3 Software Architecture Model

Default Server-Side Framework

Globus GT3 Architecture Details

Grid Service Container

OGSI Reference Implementation

Security Infrastructure

Transport-Level Security

Message-Level Security

Security Directions

System-Level Services

Hosting Environments

Load Balancing Features in GT3

Client-Side Framework

Message Preprocessing Handlers

Summary

Note

CHAPTER 12 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit:Programming Model

Introduction

Service Programming Model

Grid Service Behavior Implementation

Operation Providers

Factory Callback Mechanism

Grid Service Lifecycle Callbacks and Lifecycle Management

Service Activation

Service Deactivation

Service State Data Persistence Mechanisms

GT3-Provided Service Types

Grid Service Lifecycle Model

GT3-Supported Programming Model for Service Data Management

Creating Dynamic Service Data Elements

Service Data from Service Annotation

Service Data Query Support in GT3

Custom Query Engines and Evaluators

Service Data Change Notification

Client Programming Model

GT3 Tools

Service and Client-Side artifacts

GT3 Configuration

GT3-Provided Default Implementation Classes

Significance of Message Handlers in GT3

JAX-RPC Handlers

AXIS Handlers

GT3 Security Implementation and Programming Model

GT3 Security Handlers

Internal Security Design Workflow Details

WS-Security Handling

Service Message Exchange Logging

Other Important Elements in GT3

Message Style and Encoding

Type-Mapping and Serialization

Summary

CHAPTER 13 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit:A Sample Implementation

Acme Search Service Implementation in a Top-Down Approach

Base Service Implementation

Implementing Search Grid Service

Grid Service Configuration

Simple Client Implementation

Advanced Grid Service

Advanced Service Data Concepts

Operation Providers

Conclusion

Notes

CHAPTER 14 GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit:High-Level Services

Introduction

Resource Discovery and Monitoring

Resource Allocation

Data Management

Information Services

Component Model for Information Services

Conclusion

Index Services

IndexService Information Model

Functional Aspects of Index Service

Index Service Configuration Model

Monitoring and Discovery

Summary

Resource Information Provider Service

Internal Operations of RIPS

Summary

Resource Management Services

Two Aspects to the GRAM Architecture

Resource Specification Language

Summary

Data Management Services

Grid File Transfer Protocol(GridFTP)

Reliable File Transfer(RFT)

Replica Location Service(RLS)

Summary

Conclusion

Note

CHAPTER 15 OGSI.NET Middleware Solutions

OGSI.NET Framework Implementation

Architecture Overview

Dispatcher

Grid Service Wrapper

Factory

Message Handlers

Security

Persistence

Programming Model

Attribute-Based Programming

OGSIPortTypeAttribute

NotificationSourcePortType

Configuration

Summary

Notes

Glossary

References

Index