grid computing for electromagnetics

[...]... References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] http://www.ibm.com /grid DataGrid Project Home Page, http://www.eu-datagrid.org Access Grid Project Home Page, http://www.accessgrid.org ASC Portal Home Page, http://www.acsportal.org Baker, M., R Buyya, and D Laforenza, “The Grid: International Efforts in Global Computing, ” International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education... grid is conceived as a set of universally recognized standards, protocols, and Web-compliant technologies open to the majority of existing distributed visions and methodologies 16 General Concepts on Grids Local grid LAN LAN LAN WAN LAN Department grid Condor pool Internet Global grid Figure 1.12 Examples of grids A LAN can host a local grid, and its local grid can itself be part of a wider grid for. .. intended as a guide to the use of grid computing, an emerging branch of information technology for researchers involved in electromagnetics It has a practical orientation and aims at allowing researchers to learn how to set up a computational grid, how to run electromagnetic applications on it, and how to use grid computing to identify new and promising perspectives for their research The book could... users Grids performance must not be affected by this 5 Heterogeneity Grids resources are heterogeneous: network, platforms, operating systems, electronic devices, and software tools provided by different vendors and following different architectures and paradigms are merged in a grid Grids must define uniform and standard ways of interaction with them so that heterogeneity is hidden 1.7 Computational Grids... to build up a grid, install or migrate his or her applications, and run them Therefore, in Chapter 1, we propose general concepts about grids In Chapter 2, we give a short overview on Globus, a fundamental tool for grid implementation In Chapter 3, we summarize the main steps in building up a grid In the next chapters, we propose three EM applications Chapter 4 deals with the use of GC for parallel... Chapter 4 for an HPC application, Chapter 5 for an application focused on collaborative engineering and meta applications, and Chapter 6 for an application oriented Grid Computing: Who Is Who? xv to data exploration and HTC Should you be interested just in one of the mentioned areas, you may want to read further in the Introduction, where we suggest how to read the whole book or parts of it Grid Computing: ... frontiers to low-cost high-performance computing Meanwhile, Web technologies have emerged, thus enforcing the trend towards distributed applications The Web on one side and the distributed computing on the other have remained, until some years ago, substantially disjointed, except for very trivial issues regarding networking Recently, the technology of computational grids is performing a revolutionary action,... (GGF) [6] The GGF coordinates a growing number of research groups cooperating to ratify community standards for grid software and services and to develop vendor- and architecture-independent protocols and interfaces Grid Computing: An Opportunity for Electromagnetics Research Though the community of electromagnetics (EM) research has been only peripherally interested in GC until now, several practical... the use of HPC for CPU-demanding tasks, such as the ones using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) codes for human-antenna interaction This is a typical CPU-intensive application, quite amenable to parallel computing Until now, its solution with parallel computing has required the use of costly parallel platforms to achieve effective performance GC, however, offers a low-cost supercomputing environment,... Introduction Grid Computing: What Is It? The continuous progress in scientific research is itself an explanation of the insatiable demand for computational power On the other hand, one of the results of scientific progress is the availability of more and more powerful computer platforms This self-feeding cycle is pushing our search for knowledge towards very challenging investigations, and parallel computing .