The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Great read.' ***** 'THE BEST BOOK THAT I'VE READ ALL YEAR!'
In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid's maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s.
The Grid is the first history of the electrical grid intended for general readers, and it comes at a time when we badly need such a guide.
The Grid tells--entertainingly, perceptively--the story of what has been called "the largest machine in the world": its fascinating history, its problematic present, and its potential role in a brighter, cleaner future.
Read this book and you will never view reality the same way again!
... portal that facilitates the description and discovery of virtual data products, the integration of virtual data ... Genius. GENIUS [27] is a portal system developed within the context of the EU DataGrid project [28]. GENIUS follows a ...