Grid and Cloud Computing

The book contains: Concept of Evolution of Distributed computing: Scalable computing over the Internet – Technologies for network based systems – clusters of cooperative computers – Grid computing Infrastructures – cloud computing – service oriented architecture – Introduction to Grid Architecture and standards – Elements of Grid – Overview of Grid Architecture. Cloud deployment models: public private hybrid community – Categories of cloud computing: Everything as a service: Infrastructure platform software – Pros and Cons of cloud computing – Implementation levels of virtualization – virtualization structure – virtualization of CPU Memory and I/O devices – virtual clusters and Resource Management – Virtualization for data center automation. Open source grid middle-ware packages – Globus Toolkit (GT4) Architecture Configuration – Usage of Globus – Main components and Programming model – Introduction to Hadoop Framework – Mapreduce Input splitting map and reduce functions specifying input and output parameters configuring and running a job – Design of Hadoop file system HDFS concepts command line and java interface data-flow of File read & File write.