网格计算(Grid Computing)是近几年一个新兴的研究领域。作为有望成为下一代信息社会的基础设施，网格计算不仅备受学术界的瞩目，也引起了IT业界浓厚的兴趣。在本书中，两位来自IBM的专家Joshy Joseph和Craig Fellenstein沿着“概念-发展-理论-实践”的主线，首先对网格计算析概念进行了阐明，对于网格计算由来和演变做了分析，然后介绍网格应用，接下来对相关的网格标准（OGSA，OGSI）做了十分翔实准确的叙述，*后还对目前网格领域*有影响力的Globus Toolkit 3做了非常细致的说明。本书具有准确全面，注重实践，详尽介绍*新技术和标准，篇章结构组织严谨、线索突出等特点。
通过阅读该书，读者不仅可以迅速掌握网格计算和效用计算的基本概念、学习如何构建相关程序、理解现有技术和标准的*新进展，更可以将网格技术用于组织现有IT资源，降低成本并让它们发挥出更大的价值。

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Grid Computing
CHAPTER I Introduction
Early Grid Activities
Data
Computation
Computational and Data Grids
Current Grid Activities
An Overview of Grid Business Areas
Life Sciences
Financial Analysis and Services
Research Collaboration
Engineering and Design
Collaborative Games
Government
Grid Applications
Schedulers
Resource Broker
Load Balancing
Grid Portals
Grid Infrastructure
Conclusion
Notes
Part 2 Grid Computing Worldwide Initiatives
CHAPTER 2 Grid Computing Organizations and Their Roles
Organizations Developing Grid Standards and Best Practice Guidelines Global Grid Forum (GGF)
Organizations Developing Grid Computing Toolkits and the Framework
Globus
Legion
Condor and Condor-G
Nimrod
UNICORE (UNiform Interface to COmputer REsource)
NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions to Solve Computing, Data, and Network Requirements
United States Department of Energy: Science Grid (DOE)
European Union: EUROGRID Project
European Union: Data Grid Project
TeraGrid
NASA Information Power Grid (IPG)
Commercial Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions
Notes
CHAPTER 3 The Grid Computing Anatomy
The Grid Problem
The Concept of Virtual Organizations
Grid Architecture
Grid Architecture and Relationship to Other Distributed Technologies
Summary
Notes
CHAPTER 4 The Grid Computing Road Map
Autonomic Computing
Business On Demand and Infrastructure Virtualization
Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid
Semantic Grids
Summary
Notes
Part 3 The New Generation of Grid Computing Applications
part 4 The Grid Computing Technological Viewpoints
Part 5 The Grid Computing Toolkits