本书是网格计算领域的奠基性著作，编者lan Foster和 Carl Kesselman均为网格计算技术的开拓者。第2版阐述了网格技术在实现和规范方面取得的*新进展，增加了三分之一的内容，从科学和工业需求角度介绍了网格的背景，实现和发展，网格在工程，商务领域以及物理学、医学、生物学、天文学、地震工程学等学科的广泛应用，网格的基础架构，网格数据和知识，网格工具，网格的基础设施等。同时开创性地阐述了在科学研究与工程实践中大规模资源共享和虚拟的问题，以及机构间的资源共享和技术需求中的**、可靠和**之间的关系。
本书可以作为高等院校相关专业本科生及研究生的教材和参考读物，对网格计算及相关技术领域的研发人员来说也具有很高的实用和参考价值。

Editors
Preface to the Second Edition
PART I PERSPECTIVES
1 Grids in Context
2 The Scientific Lmperative
3 The lndustrial lmperative
PART II FRAMEWORK
4 Concepts and Architecture
PART III APPLICATIONS
5 Predictive maintenance:Distributed Aircraft Enging Diagnostics
6 Distributed Telepresence:The NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory
7 Scientific Data Federation:The World-Wide Telescope
8 Medical Data Federation:The Biomedical lnformatics Research Network
9 Knowledge lntegration:ln Silico Experiments in Bioinformatics
10 Distributed data Analysis:Federated Computing for High-Energy Physics
11 Massively Distributed Computing:Virtual Screening on a Desktop Grid
12 Enterprise Resource Management:Applications in Research and Industry
13 Interactivity with Scalability:Infrastucture for Multiplayer Games
14 Service Virtualization:Infrastructure and Applications
15 Group-Oriented Collaboration:The Access Grid Collaboration System
16 Collaborative Science:Astrophysics Requirements and Experiences
PART IV ARCHITECTURE
17 The Open Grid Services Architecture
18 Resource and Service Management
19 Building Reliable Clients and Services
20 Instrumentation and Monitoring
21 Security for Virtual Organizations:Federating Trust and Policy Domains
PART V DATA AND KNOWLEDGE
22 Data Access,lntegration,and Management
23 Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and Semantics
PART VI TOOLS
24 Application-Level Tools
25 Languages,Compilers,and Run-Time Systems
26 Application Tuning and Adaptation
PART VII INFRASTRUCTURE
27 Production Depolyment:Experiences and Recommendations
28 Computing Elements
29 Peer-to-Peer Technologies
30 Network Infrastructure