Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way. Extensively classroom-tested, it covers job submission and scheduling, Grid security, Grid computing services and software tools, graphical user interfaces, workflow editors,

Barry Wilkinson is a professor of computer science and the director of the computer science master's program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Introduction to Grid Computing. Job Submission. Schedulers. Security Concepts. Grid Security. System Infrastructure I: Web Services. System Infrastructure II: Grid Computing Services. User-Friendly Interfaces. Grid-Enabling Applications. Appendices. Glossary. Answers to Self-Assessment Questions. Index.