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(More customer reviews)Grid Computing is coming and it's hard to separate the hype from the reality. Not to mention the fact that various companies have co-opted "Grid" to refer to things that are less than Grids.
Make no mistake; this is a technology that's coming, and you, the IT Manager, Engineering Director or CEO of a technical company need to know what it's about.
Enter Richard Wellner and Pavel Plaszczak with "Grid Computing, The Savvy Manager's Guide". This is a very good book to provide the context you need to understand what Grid Computing is, where it came from and what it means to you.
The underlying technologies, such as Web Services, are covered in a lucid and accessible way. Numerous case studies are presented to show how organizations have capitalized on The Grid.
One particularly compelling success story presented is NEESgrid which uses Grid Computing for earthquake research. Massive computing resources are applied to analysis and simulation using pools of computers from around the world and the huge data sets created are made available on The Grid to a widely distributed community of scientists.
Plaszczak and Wellner are well qualified to write this book. Both worked under Dr. Ian Foster at Argonne National Laboratory as developers of the Globus Toolkit and both are now involved in commercial applications of Grid Computing. There is no better mentor than Dr. Foster, who coined the term "The Grid" and is co-author of the seminal theoretical work on the subject with Dr. Karl Kesselman of USC.
If your are looking to come to grips with a powerful new technology that is destined to affect the world of computing profoundly you should get a copy "Grid Computing, The Savvy Manager's Guide".
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