Ian Foster

The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure

Preface Foreword 1. Grids in Context 2. Computational Grids I Applications 3 Distributed Supercomputing Applications 4 Real-Time Widely Distributed Instrumentation Systems 5 Dat...

A national-scale authentication infrastructure

Participants in virtual organizations commonly need to share resources such as data archives, computer cycles, and networks, resources usually available only with restrictions b...

A Grid-Enabled MPI: Message Passing in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems

Application development for high-performance distributed computing systems, or computational grids as they are sometimes called, requires grid-enabled tools that hide mundate as...

Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid

The Physiology of the Grid An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration

In both e-business and e-science, we often need to integrate services across distributed, heterogeneous, dynamic “virtual organizations ” formed from the disparate resources wit...

The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations

“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applicatio...

Grid information services for distributed resource sharing

Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal consortia of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations...

A security architecture for computational grids

Article Free Access Share on A security architecture for computational grids Authors: Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, I...

The data grid: Towards an architecture for the distributed management and analysis of large scientific datasets

Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids

A quality of service architecture that combines resource reservation and application adaptation

Reservation and adaptation are two well-known and effective techniques for enhancing the end-to-end performance of network applications. However, both techniques also have limit...