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The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (The Elsevier Series in Grid Computing)
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The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (The Elsevier Series in Grid Computing) |
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Published: 2003-12-02 |
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 Nothing but an Overview of Where Grids Are in 2003 and Where Could They Go
I am intensely interested in the current state of Grid technology (Dec. 2005) and want to begin an implementation or the participation of a modern Grid. I got the book yesterday and am now done with it. This book should never have had a second edition. I skimmed through all 748 pages in about one hour. It is repeat of topic after topic by different authors rehashing the same 'issues' that anyone who found this book has probably already learned as much in his Googling.
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br /This is frustrating, WHERE IS THE MEAT!!!! in Grid technology. No one seems to have a decent book. Its almost 2006! Someone, teach me how to build a Grid and run Hello World on it please!
 Poor tech, poor future insights
Before buying this book, I also bought the first volume. Personally I would say the first one being more interesting and technically adequate to whom wants a professional insight on what grid computing is. The second book seemed to me a simple marketing strategy: no new topics, no technical insights. Just an annoying list of accomplished grid deployments ranging from scientific installments to commercial ones.
br /I'm actually disappointed. I was hoping Foster et. al. could give me some new and interesting insights on what are the real problems of advanced grid computing concepts and techniques instead, I received a book great only for making the references to my thesis (I was doing my master thesis on grid mapping algorithms).
br /Moreover, most of the deployed scenarios explained in the book can be easily find on the net by searching for scientific documents on specific grid topics. Seems more of a collage of articles rather than a deep analysis of actual grid challenges, techniques and proscons.
br /I would suggest such a book only to newby wanting to get an overview of what grid computing is and what has been done to date.
 Excellent Book into the future
This is a great buy and an excellent book into the future. Very well explained collection of topics.
Hear the authors out
Boy, when was VA declared an imagination-free zone? Don't the critical reviewers of this book have any belief in the possibilities afforded by grid computing? To complain that the book is light on technical detail is somewhat churlish, because the purpose of the book was to examine the possibilities, not show you how to code one up in an afternoon at the comfort of your desk. pCan there be any doubt that computing grids will start to become popular in some form or another? I don't think there is any doubt at all. Perhaps when some of the research and early work is complete and the standards agreed, some enterprising author can write a book on grid computing with more technical meat on the bone, but until that work is done, what would be the point? I suspect there just isn't all that much technical detail to point at yet. pTo my way of thinking, all the possible uses and configurations of computing grids are still to be discovered. If you are one of the explorers intent on doing something new and different with the technology, then this book is for you. If you are only content to follow the crowd, once all the technical details have been worked out and served up on a plate to you by somebody else, then by all means skip this book and wait for one with more technical gravitas.
 Startling look into the future
I don't understand some of the critical reviews of this book. The fact is that Grids do exist today and are being used by Research oriented companies. About two dozen companies are already serving clients in the realm of grid computing. Platform Computing, United Devices, and Avaki are just three companies who are helping to create the future of the grid computing. The web succeded because it connected everybody. Until larger grids are contructed for business enterprises I agree that grid computing will not grow. The book does a great job of showing what the future may be like in terms of grid computing. Someday your computing resources will come from your local Grid Computing Company just as you get electricity from your Power Company. How that comes to be is still the ultimate question.
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