Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 High-level overview of grid computing -- 1.1.1 Types of grids -- 1.2 Globus Project -- 1.2.1 Globus Toolkit Version 2.2 -- 1.2.2 OGSA and Globus Toolkit V3 -- 1.3 Grid components: A high-level perspective -- 1.3.1 Portal - User interface -- 1.3.2 Security -- 1.3.3 Broker -- 1.3.4 Scheduler -- 1.3.5 Data management -- 1.3.6 Job and resource management -- 1.3.7 Other -- 1.4 Job flow in a grid environment -- 1.5 Summary -- Chapter 2. Grid infrastructure considerations -- 2.1 Grid infrastructure components -- 2.1.1 Security -- 2.1.2 Resource management -- 2.1.3 Information services -- 2.1.4 Data management -- 2.1.5 Scheduler -- 2.1.6 Load balancing -- 2.1.7 Broker -- 2.1.8 Inter-process communications (IPC) -- 2.1.9 Portal -- 2.2 Non-functional requirements -- 2.2.1 Performance -- 2.2.2 Reliability -- 2.2.3 Topology considerations -- 2.2.4 Mixed platform environments -- 2.3 Summary -- Chapter 3. Application architecture considerations -- 3.1 Jobs and grid applications -- 3.2 Application flow in a grid -- 3.2.1 Parallel flow -- 3.2.2 Serial flow -- 3.2.3 Networked flow -- 3.2.4 Jobs and sub-jobs -- 3.3 Job criteria -- 3.3.1 Batch job -- 3.3.2 Standard application -- 3.3.3 Parallel applications -- 3.3.4 Interactive jobs -- 3.4 Programming language considerations -- 3.5 Job dependencies on system environment -- 3.6 Checkpoint and restart capability -- 3.7 Job topology -- 3.8 Passing of data input/output -- 3.9 Transactions -- 3.10 Data criteria -- 3.11 Usability criteria -- 3.11.1 Traditional usability requirements -- 3.11.2 Usability requirements for grid solutions -- 3.12 Non-functional criteria -- 3.12.1 Software license considerations.

3.12.2 Grid application development -- 3.13 Qualification scheme for grid applications -- 3.13.1 Knock-out criteria for grid applications -- 3.13.2 The grid application qualification scheme -- 3.14 Summary -- Chapter 4. Data management considerations -- 4.1 Data criteria -- 4.1.1 Individual/separated data per job -- 4.1.2 Shared data access -- 4.1.3 Locking -- 4.1.4 Temporary data spaces -- 4.1.5 Size of data -- 4.1.6 Network bandwidth -- 4.1.7 Time-sensitive data -- 4.1.8 Data topology -- 4.1.9 Data types -- 4.1.10 Data volume and grid scalability -- 4.1.11 Encrypted data -- 4.2 Data management techniques and solutions -- 4.2.1 Shared file system -- 4.2.2 Databases -- 4.2.3 Replication (distribution of files across a set of nodes) -- 4.2.4 Mirroring -- 4.2.5 Caching -- 4.2.6 Transfer agent -- 4.2.7 Access Control System -- 4.2.8 Peer-to-peer data transfer -- 4.2.9 Sandboxing -- 4.2.10 Data brokering -- 4.2.11 Global file system approach -- 4.2.12 SAN approach -- 4.2.13 Distributed approach -- 4.2.14 Database solutions for grids -- 4.2.15 Data brokering -- 4.3 Some data grid projects in the Globus community -- 4.3.1 EU DataGrid -- 4.3.2 GriPhyn -- 4.3.3 Particle Physics Data Grid -- 4.4 Summary -- Chapter 5. Getting started with development in C/C++ -- 5.1 Overview of programming environment -- 5.1.1 Globus libc APIs -- 5.1.2 Makefile -- 5.1.3 Globus module -- 5.1.4 Callbacks -- 5.2 Submitting a job -- 5.2.1 Shells commands -- 5.2.2 globusrun -- 5.2.3 GSIssh -- 5.2.4 Job submission skeleton for C/C++ applications -- 5.2.5 Simple broker -- 5.3 Summary -- Chapter 6. Programming examples for Globus using Java -- 6.1 CoGs -- 6.2 GSI/Proxy -- 6.3 GRAM -- 6.3.1 GramJob -- 6.3.2 GramJobListener -- 6.3.3 GramException -- 6.4 MDS -- 6.4.1 Example of accessing MDS -- 6.5 RSL -- 6.5.1 Example using RSL -- 6.6 GridFTP -- 6.6.1 GridFTP basic third-party transfer.

6.6.2 GridFTP client-server -- 6.6.3 URLCopy -- 6.7 GASS -- 6.7.1 Batch GASS example -- 6.7.2 Interactive GASS example -- 6.8 Summary -- Chapter 7. Using Globus Toolkit for data management -- 7.1 Using a Globus Toolkit data grid with RSL -- 7.2 Globus Toolkit data grid low-level API: globus_io -- 7.2.1 globus_io example -- 7.2.2 Skeleton source code for creating a simple GSI socket -- 7.3 Global access to secondary storage -- 7.3.1 Easy file transfer by using globus_gass_copy API -- 7.3.2 globus_gass_transfer API -- 7.3.3 Using the globus_gass_server_ez API -- 7.3.4 Using the globus-gass-server command -- 7.3.5 Globus cache management -- 7.4 GridFTP -- 7.4.1 GridFTP examples -- 7.4.2 Globus GridFTP APIs -- 7.5 Replication -- 7.5.1 Shell commands -- 7.5.2 Replica example -- 7.5.3 Installation -- 7.6 Summary -- Chapter 8. Developing a portal -- 8.1 Building a simple portal -- 8.2 Integrating portal function with a grid application -- 8.2.1 Add methods to execute the Globus commands -- 8.2.2 Putting it together -- 8.3 Summary -- Chapter 9. Application examples -- 9.1 Lottery simulation program -- 9.1.1 Simulate a lottery using gsissh in a shell script -- 9.1.2 Simulate a lottery using Globus commands -- 9.2 Small Blue example -- 9.2.1 Gridification -- 9.2.2 Implementation -- 9.2.3 Compilation -- 9.2.4 Execution -- 9.3 Hello World example -- 9.3.1 The Hello World application -- 9.3.2 Dynamic libraries dependencies -- 9.3.3 Starting the application by the resource provider -- 9.3.4 Compilation -- 9.3.5 Execution -- 9.4 Summary -- Chapter 10. Globus Toolkit V3.0 -- 10.1 Overview of changes from GT2 to GT3 -- 10.1.1 SOAP message security -- 10.1.2 Creating grid services -- 10.1.3 Security - proxies -- 10.1.4 SOAP GSI plugin for C/C++ Web services -- 10.2 OGSI implementation -- 10.3 Open Grid Service Architecture (OSGA) -- 10.4 Globus grid services.

10.4.1 Index Services -- 10.4.2 Service data browser -- 10.4.3 GRAM -- 10.4.4 Reliable File Transfer Service (RFT) -- 10.4.5 Replica Location Service (RLS) -- 10.5 Summary -- Appendix A. Grid qualification scheme -- A suggested grid application qualification scheme -- Appendix B. C/C++ source code for examples -- Globus API C++ wrappers -- ITSO_GASS_TRANSFER -- ITSO_GLOBUS_FTP_CLIENT -- ITSO_CB -- ITSO_GRAM_JOB -- StartGASSServer() and StopGASSServer() -- ITSO broker -- SmallBlue example -- HelloWorld example -- Lottery example -- C/C++ simple examples -- gassserver.C -- Checking credentials -- Submitting a job -- Appendix C. Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Index -- Back cover.