文摘
英文文摘
论文说明:List of Figures
声明
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Problem Statement
1.2. Goals and Contributions
1.3. Thesis Outline
Chapter 2: Grid Computing Concepts and Relevant Work
2.1 Grid Computing
2.1.1. Grid Characterization
2.1.2. Grid Origins
2.1.3. Current Sate of the Grid
2.1.4. Grid Portals
2.2. Grid Computing Projects
2.2.1. Netsolve: A Network Enabled Computational Kernel
2.2.2. Ninf: A Network Enabled Server
2.2.3. Nimrod-G: Grid Resource Broker
2.2.4. Grid Tools
2.2.5. Condor
2.2.6. EasyGrid
2.2.7. ISAM
2.3. Classification of Grid Applications
2.4. Summary
Chapter 3: Middleware
3.1. History of Middleware
3.2. Motivation for Pro-middleware
3.3. Functions of Middleware
3.4. Designing Middleware
3.5. Programming with Middleware
3.6. Middleware and Layering
3.7. Middleware and Resource Management
3.8. Middleware Services
3.9. Grid Middleware
3.9.1. Globus
3.9.2. Globus GRAM
3.10. Summary
Chapter 4: Users-Grid: A Virtualization Pro-middleware
4.1. Concepts of Virtualization
4.2. Users-Grid Architecture
4.3. Automatic Job Submission
4.3.1. Users-Grid Monitor
4.3.2. Users-Grid Worker
4.3.3 Personal Automatic Job Submission Agent (PAJA)
4.4. Summary
Chapter 5: Users-Grid MATLAB(R) Plug-in
5.1. The Need
5.2. Users-Grid Support for Matlab
5.2.1. Modes of Running
5.3. Summary
Chapter 6: Prototype Development and Experimental Results
6.1. Prototype Development
6.1.1: Installation of Users-Grid
6.2. Experiments and Comparison of Results
6.2.1. Experiment # 1
6.2.2. Experiment # 2: Comparison with Condor
6.2.3. Experiment # 3: Buffon-Laplace Needle Problem
6.2.4. Experiment # 4: Image processing applications
6.2.5. Experiment # 5: Comparison of Users-Grid with Distributed Matlab Systems
6.3. Summary
Chapter 7: Future Extensions
7.1. Job monitoring tool
7.2. Extension of RSL
7.3. Development of AMRTS
7.3.1. Helper Agents:
7.3.2. Worker Agent:
7.3.3. Salesman Agent:
7.4. Future Topics
7.5. Chapter Conclusion
Chapter 8: Conclusions
8.1. Contributions and Selected Highlights
8.2. Future Endeavors
8.3. Validation of Users-Grid Capabilities
8.4 The Ambition
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Publications