Textbook
The Grid: Core TechnologiesISBN: 978-0-470-09417-4
Paperback
456 pages
May 2005, ©2005
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Dr Mark Baker is a hardworking Reader in Distributed
Systems at the University of Portsmouth. He also currently holds
visiting chairs at the universities of Reading and Westminster.
Mark has resided in the relative safety of academia since leaving
the British Merchant, where he was a navigating officer, in the
early 1980s. Mark has held posts at various universities, including
Cardiff, Edinburgh and Syracuse. He has a number of geek-like
interests, which his research group at Portsmouth help him pursue.
These include wide-area resource monitoring, messaging systems for
parallel and wide-area applications, middleware such as information
and security services, as well as performance evaluation and
modelling of computer systems.
Mark’s non-academic interests include squash (getting too
old), DIY (he may one day finish his house off), reading (far too
many science fiction books), keeping the garden ship-shape and a
beer or two to reduce the pain of the aforementioned
activities.