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  title info:
    title: Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming
    sub title: Making Grids More Usable
  name:
    name part: Dünnweber, Jan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gorlatch, Sergei.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 186 p. online resource.
  abstract: A major challenge in grid computing remains the application software development for this new kind of infrastructure. Grid application programmers have to take into account several complicated aspects: distribution of data and computations, parallel computations on different sites and processors, heterogeneity of the involved computers, load balancing, etc. Grid programmers thus demand novel programming methodologies that abstract over such technical details while preserving the beneficial features of modern grid middleware. For this purpose, the authors introduce Higher-Order Components (HOCs). HOCs implement generic parallel/distributed processing patterns, together with the required middleware support, and they are offered to users via a high-level service interface. Users only have to provide the application-specific pieces of their programs as parameters, while low-level implementation details, such as the transfer of data across the grid, are handled by the HOCs. HOCs were developed within the CoreGRID European Network of Excellence and have become an optional extension of the popular Globus middleware. The book provides the reader with hands-on experience, describing a broad collection of example applications from various fields of science and engineering, including biology, physics, etc. The Java code for these examples is provided online, complementing the book. The expected application performance is studied and reported for extensive performance experiments on different testbeds, including grids with worldwide distribution. The book is targeted at graduate students, advanced professionals, and researchers in both academia and industry. Readers can raise their level of knowledge about methodologies for programming contemporary parallel and distributed systems, and, furthermore, they can gain practical experience in using distributed software. Practical examples show how the complementary online material can easily be adopted in various new projects.
  table of contents: HOCs: Software Components for Grid Programming -- Higher-Order Component Service Architecture (HOC-SA) -- Applications of Higher-Order Components -- HOCs With Embedded Scheduling and Loop Parallelization -- Conclusions and Related Work.
  note: by Jan Dünnweber, Sergei Gorlatch.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer communication systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer programming
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Electrical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Communication Networks
  subject:
    topic: Communications Engineering, Networks
  subject:
    topic: Programming Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Computer Applications
  classification: TK5105.5-5105.9
  classification: 004.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642008412
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00841-2
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