Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager’s Guide

ONLINE REFERENCE

This page contains online references to Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager’s Guide.
References are ordered by chapter, and then by subject.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Basics
Chapter 3: Grid Computing Enters Business
Chapter 4: Joining the Grid
Chapter 5: Technical Issues
Chapter 6: Management Issues
Other links

Chapter 1: Introduction

Google:
Google Corporate Information: Technology Overview
Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hyper textual Web Search Engine. Proceedings of the seventh World Wide Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, also in a special issue of the journal Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 30, issues 1-7.
Search Engine Optimization Forums
Jim Snow’s page on Google
Google Bets the Farm on Linux
One more article
the secret source of google’s power
A paper on Google’s fault tolerant system
How Google manages its linux clusters - talk by Urs Hoelzle
Google Sec filing
Google IPO analysis
Google Web API

Sabre:
Sabre fact sheet
Sabre: About us
ComputerWorld: Sabre Flies to Open Systems an overview of recent ATSE architecture
Sabre: The foundation of our business - slides with some high level architecture concepts.
HP Sabre use case
Another ATSE tech presentation
Server Pipeline: Sabre Updates IT Systems, a comprehensive article looking from different business angles on how Sabre keeps pace with changing technology and business environment.
Sabre supports Web Services from OASIS Cover Pages
What is PNR

Chapter 2: The Basics

Legion project at University of Virginia
Ninf project
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), participant in Ninf project
Unicore Forum
Unicore at SourceForge
Unicore Pro at Pallas GmbH
TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTER SITES - ranking of world’s strongest computers.
The WS-Resource Framework page at Globus Project site
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual organizations. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke. International J. Supercomputer Applications, 15(3), 2001. Available for download from Globs Aliance paper collection.
The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, J. Nick, S. Tuecke, Open Grid Service Infrastructure WG, Global Grid Forum, June 22, 2002. Available for download from Globs Alliance paper collection.

Security for Grid Services. V. Welch, F. Siebenlist, I. Foster, J. Bresnahan, K. Czajkowski, J. Gawor, C. Kesselman, S. Meder, L. Pearlman, S. Tuecke. Twelfth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12), IEEE Press, to appear June 2003.
A Security Architecture for Computational Grids. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, G. Tsudik, S. Tuecke. Proc. 5th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Conference, pp. 83-92, 1998. Describes techniques for authentication in wide area computing environments.
GGF’s OGSA working group The latest work-in-progress version of OGSA standard is available from there.
Global Grid Forum Officially published standards incl. OGSA can be downloaded from there.