Discusses fresh technologies and applications involved in building Cyberinfrastructure. This book presents a summary of early experiences, practices and lessons leaned in building Cyberinfrastructure from multiple perspectives. It is suitable for educators

A computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capability. An ideal grid environment should provide access to the available resources in a seamless manner. Resource management is an important infrastructural component of a grid computing environment. The overall aim of resource management is to efficiently schedule applications that need to utilise the available resources in the grid environment. In this work, an A4 (Agile Architecture and Autonomous Agents) methodology is...