Grid and Cloud Computing
Subtitle: with Lab experiments as per Anna University Syllabus of R-2013
Publisher: AR Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chennai, India
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9789384608767
Description: This book “Grid and Cloud Computing” is about an exploratory awareness to solve large scale scientific problems through Grid and Cloud Computing. It contributes an impression towards virtualization as fundamental concept towards cloud computing. It provides a preliminary study on Grid Computing and further briefs into a detailed study on Cloud Computing with various features like Security, Virtualization and environment setup. It provides procedural footsteps for setting up a Grid environment - Globus Toolkit, Cloud Environment – Open Nebula and Hadoop Environment in Ubuntu Linux for Grid and Cloud Computing Laboratory along with sample programs and guidelines. 
Unit I: Introduction towards progression of distributed computing with Internet beside through basics of network based technologies, Grid computing and Cloud computing from side to side architectural standards.
Unit II: Outline to Grid services through an impression of Open Grid Services Architecture and Initiative’s Standards, Requirements, Practical view, Detailed view and Data intensive grid services. 
Unit III: Transitory awareness on various cloud deployment models, their advantages and disadvantages. Brief knowledge over virtualization and their structure along with CPU, Memory, I/O devices, clusters and resources management.
Unit IV: Provides a procedure for installing and configuration setup for Globus Toolkit and its usage. Contributes an knowledge on Hadoop Framework with introduction, installing, configuring and programming with java.
Unit V: Provides a comparative study over security models of Grid environment and Cloud Computing environment with individual, group and other type of user level policy.
Unit VI: Provides a step by step installing procedure for lab environment setup along with sample programs for Laboratory.
Notes: This book based Anna University, Chennai , R 2013 based Text book along with Lab Manual
Table of contents: title: UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION; title: 1.1 Evolution of Distributed computing: Scalable computing over the Internet; title: 1.2 Technologies for network based systems; title: 1.3 Clusters of cooperative computers; title: 1.4 Grid Computing Infrastructures; title: 1.5 Cloud Computing; title: 1.6 Service oriented architecture; title: 1.7 Introduction to Grid Architecture and standards; title: 1.8 Elements Of Grid; title: 1.9 Overview of Grid Architecture; title: UNIT 2 GRID SERVICES; title: 2.1 Introduction to Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA); title: 2.2 Motivations for Standardization; title: 2.3 Functionality Requirements; title: 2.4 Practical & Detailed view of OGSA/OGSI; title: 2.5 Data intensive grid service models; title: 2.6 OGSA Services; title: UNIT 3 VIRTUALIZATION; title: 3.1 Cloud deployment models; title: 3.2 Categories of cloud computing; title: 3.3 Pros and Cons of cloud computingzation; title: 3.5 Virtualization structure; title: 3.6 Virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O devices; title: 3.7 Virtual clusters and Resource Management; title: 3.8 Virtualization for data center automation; title: UNIT 4 PROGRAMMING MODEL; title: 4.1 Open source grid middleware packages; title: 4.2 Globus Toolkit (GT4); title: 4.3 Introduction to Hadoop Framework; title: 4.4 Design of Hadoop file system; title: 4.5 Java interface; title: UNIT 5 SECURITY; title: 5.1 Trust models for Grid security environment; title: 5.2 Authentication and Authorization methods; title: 5.3 Grid security infrastructure; title: 5.4 Cloud Infrastructure security; title: 5.5 Aspects of data security; title: 5.6 Provider data and its security; title: 5.7 Identity and Access Management architecture; title: 5.8 IAM practices in the cloud; title: 5.9 Cloud Service Provider IAM Practice; title: 5.10 Key privacy issues in the cloud; title: 6. GRID and Cloud Computing Lab; title: 6.1 Globus Toolkit; title: 6.2 Opennebulla; title: 6.3 Hadoop