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Most up-to-date research on grid-based computing Comprehensive coverage of important topics in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

International Federation for Information Processing

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springer.com.

For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.

Zusammenfassung

This volume presents the proceedings of the IFIP TC2 WG 2.5 Conference on Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments: Implications for Development and Deployment of Numerical Software, held in Prescott, Arizona from July 17-21, 2006. The book contains the most up-to-date research on grid-based computing. It will interest users and developers of both grid-based and traditional problem solving environments, developers of grid infrastructure, and developers of numerical software.

Inhalt
Workflow Tools.- Programming Paradigms for Scientific Problem Solving Environments.- Why Performance Models Matter for Grid Computing.- Automation of Network-Based Scientific Workflows.- Application Experience.- Virtual Manufacturing A Vision for Virtual Paint Operations.- Service-oriented Computation in Magnetic Fusion Research.- Lessons Learned from the GECEM Project.- Infrastructure: Services.- Open Grid Services Architecture.- Middleware for Dynamic Adaptation of Component Applications.- A Virtual Organisation deployed on a Service Orientated Architecture for Distributed Data Mining applications.- Infrastructure: Numerical Software.- THCORE: A Parallel Computation Services Model and Runtime System.- PythonCLServiceTool: A Utility for Wrapping Command-Line Applications for The Grid.- GridSolve: The Evolution of A Network Enabled Solver.- A Test Harness TH for Numerical Applications and Libraries.- Event Driven Applications.- Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems for Empty Houses, Contaminat Tracking, and Wildland Fireline Prediction.- Designing a Dynamic Data Driven Application System for Coastal and Environmental Modeling.- SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Urgent High-Performance Computing.- Data Management in Dynamic Environment-driven Computational Science.- Applications I.- Efficient Algorithm to Compute PDEs on the Grid.- On the Use of Services to Support Numerical Weather Prediction.- Mathematical Service Discovery.- Applications II.- A Problem Solving Environment based on Grid Services: NAREGI-PSE.- Grid Enabling of Nano-Science Applications in NAREGI.- Grid Architecture for Scientitic Communities.- Scientific Software Frameworks and Grid Computing.- Grid-based Imaging.- Monitoring and Migration of a PETSc-based Parallel Application for Medical Imaging in a Grid computing PSE.- Grid-based Image Registration.- Conference Summary; Strategy for Future Activities.- Observations on WoCo9.- Future Directions for Numerical Software Research Comments during Discussions at WoCo9, Prescott, AZ, July 1621, 2006.