Grid and Cloud Computing

This book “Grid and Cloud Computing” is about an exploratory awareness to solve large scale scientific problems through Grid and Cloud Computing. It contributes an impression towards virtualization as fundamental concept towards cloud computing. It provides a preliminary study on Grid Computing and further briefs into a detailed study on Cloud Computing with various features like Security, Virtualization and environment setup. It provides procedural footsteps for setting up a Grid environment - Globus Toolkit, Cloud Environment – Open Nebula and Hadoop Environment in Ubuntu Linux for Grid and Cloud Computing Laboratory along with sample programs and guidelines.