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| | | Overview includes both technical and business aspects. |
| | | Includes info about current projects and commerical applications |
| | | Quick info on the different types of grids |
| | | Way more than you'll ever need to know for finding common information like what we want. But the "Basics" section is still very useful. Advanced topics will allow you to find on the Internet things that you wouldn't think are on the Net, or things that shouldn't be on the Net, or even things that aren't legally publicly accessible on the Net.
Pretty anti-consumerism, anti-commercial, anti-corporate; and the webmaster tends to think of himself as something of a guru sometimes (himself still a student of his own "guru" though), so he can get a little cocky sometimes.
Also goes into things like "reality cracking", anonymity, reverse-engineering if you're interested.
This webmaster's views have somewhat shaped my own, since his reverse-engineering site (now down) was one of my earliest web obsessions (1997 or so?) |
| | | Most useful chapter I've found is Chapter 4 - Framework: Concepts and Architecture; very useful and informative
You may also want to read the Sample Chapter (Ch1 - Grids in Context, Intro); explains why Grids are useful
Ch18 could be useful: Resource and Service Management
I wish they also had Ch29 online: Peer-to-Peer Technologies; I do have it in my hardback copy of the book |
| | | This is a link to many research papers detailing the latest research on Peer to Peer Computing. While some good ideas may be had from these papers for algorithms / implementations, a good overview of the field and general issues (such as discovery) can be found among the papers as well. |
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| | | Article on using the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) |
| | | Official MSFT download page. |
| | | Official MSFT page on EIF, a tool for adding logging capabilities ("instrumenting") to an application, including distributed applications. |
| | | Another article on the MS EIF |
| | | Specification for the Open Grid Service Infrastructure
--from Eric Jean's weblog |
| | | A good visual rep of what a grid will entail
--from Eric Jean's weblog |
| | | Splashy video explanation of the grid
This is the type of stuff corporations work on, so it will be interesting to see how we can scale it down into a manageable project.
--from Eric Jean's weblog
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