Application Overview for the Book: Grid Computing – Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality

This book, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality,[1] brings together many of the major projects that are driving and shaping an emerging global Grid. In the chapters of this book you will find the perspectives of a pioneering group of Grid developers, researchers and application scientists whose vision forms the present and provides a view into the future of Grid computing. Many of the chapters in this book provide definitions and characterizations of the Grid–peruse these and you will form your own view. Common to all perspectives is the notion that the Grid supports the integration of resources (computers, networks, data archives, instruments etc.). To build an integrated system, individuals and communities