GRID COMPUTING

The purpose of this book will be to describe several interesting and unique aspects of this exciting new topic. Grid Computing is a type of parallel and distributed system set-up that enables and encourages the sharing of geographically dispersed resources. In many ways, it represents the convergence of supercomputing and web services. The book highlights many achievements in this innovative computer science field and it is intended to be of value to a wide spectrum of readers around the world regardless. IBM is rapidly establishing itself as the global leader in the topic of Grid Computing. This book not only address IBM’s leadership progress in the field, but other global enterprise initiatives, specific areas of interests, synergies between many enterprise partners in this field and current/future deliveries in the field of Grid Computing. Today, there is no other book like this one that explains the promise and IBM’s plans for this important initiative.