Peter Kacsuk & Thomas Fahringer 
Distributed and Parallel Systems [PDF ebook] 
From Cluster to Grid Computing

Parallel and distributed algorithms.- The Wandering Token: Congestion Avoidance of a Shared Resource.- A Locality Optimizing Algorithm for Developing Stream Programs in Imagine.- Granular SSOR Preconditioning Placed on Dynamic SMP Clusters with Communication on the Fly.- Bulk Synchronous Parallel ML with Exceptions.- Networking and communication.- A New Approach to MPI Collective Communication Implementations.- Supporting MPI applications in P-GRADE Portal.- Tuned: An Open MPI Collective Communications Component.- Self-Healing Network for Scalable Fault Tolerant Runtime Environments.- Supporting Seamless Remote I/O Using a Parallel Net CDF Interface.- Grid and web services.- Generating Semantic Descriptions of Web and Grid Services.- Legacy Code Support for Service-oriented Production Grids.- Client-Side Task Support in Matlab for Concurrent Distributed Execution.- Message Level Security For Grid Services Using S/MIME.- Grid infrastructure.- Fault Tolerant Grid Registry.- Secure application deployment in the Hierarchical Local Desktop Grid.- Designing Distributed Mediator Component for the C-GMA Monitoring Architecture.- User Oriented Grid Testing.- Advanced grid techniques.- Application and Middleware Transparent Checkpointing with TCKPT on Clustergrid.- UML based Grid Workflow Modeling under ASKALON.- A Taxonomy of Grid Resource Brokers.- Towards an Agent Integrated Speculative Scheduling Service.