The GENI Book
This book, edited by four of the leaders of the National Science Foundation’s Global Environment and Network Innovations (GENI) project, gives the reader a tour of the history, architecture, future, and applications of GENI. Built over the past deca
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The GENI Book
Rick McGeer • Mark Berman • Chip Elliott Robert Ricci Editors
The GENI Book
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Editors Rick McGeer Chief Scientist, US Ignite Washington, DC, USA
Mark Berman GENI Project Office Raytheon BBN Technologies Cambridge, MA, USA
Chip Elliott GENI Project Office Raytheon BBN Technologies Cambridge, MA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33767-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33769-2
Robert Ricci School of Computing University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33769-2 (eBook)
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This book is dedicated to the families of the coeditors: Karen and Sean, Wu and Kashi, Emily, Samantha, and Libby, and Donielle and Michaela, whose unflagging support, perennial grace, and unending patience for workaholic husbands and fathers made both GENI and this book possible. We say thanks often—but we can’t say it often enough. So, from each of us to each of you: thanks again. This book is for you.
Introduction
Background: Why GENI? GENI represents the third wave, following the Grid and the Cloud, of the integration of the network into the computational infrastructure. The first wave, the Grid, focused on the application of distributed computing resources, typically supercomputer sites, towards the solution of a single problem. Essentially, it was an extension of batch processing to multiple sites, to more efficiently use large computing resources. It emerged in the late 1990s and was rapidly extended from scientific to business processing. The Cloud is of course quite familiar, and it refers to two dominant themes. The first is the per-hour rental of virtual machines or other computing resources; the second is the transfer of traditional desktop and enterprise applications to a server acc
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