Cloud, Grid and High Performance Computing: Emerging Applications

Computer scientists, software engineers, and other basic and application researchers explore approaches to computing that have emerged from distributed systems and exploit the ubiquity of computers and computing power on networks. In sections on basics, scheduling, security, and applications, they consider such topics as porting high performance computing applications to grids and clouds, the speculative scheduling of parameter sweep applications using body behavior descriptions, the adaptive control of redundant task execution for dependable volunteer computing, and persistence and communication state transfer in an asynchronous pipe mechanism. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)