CC2063 Grid Computing Lesson Plan

COURSE OBJECTIVE AND OUTCOME

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To Understand and explain the key concepts of Grid computing.

2. To identify the resource selection for Grid environment.

3.To understand about Grid computing history ,evolution of Grid and its Security issues
4. To understand Data management and transfer in Grid environments.
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Text book
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6. To understand the recent versions of Globus toolkit.

5. To know about Resource management technologies for Grid.

1 Overall Introduction
Unit-I CONCEPTS AND
ARCHITECTURE

Notes

OGSA
WSRF

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Cluster Computing
Grid Computing
Anatomy and Physiology of Grid
Review of Web Services

7
8

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Cumulative
No. of
periods

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1
(9 hrs)

W
W
W
R3
T

2
3
4
5
6

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Teaching Aids

21-33

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1
1
1
1

2
3
4
5
6

34-40

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60-70

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Unit-II GRID
MONITORING
9

(9 hrs)

Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA)

An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems
10
-Grid ICE

154-161
172-176

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1
1

11 JAMM

189-192

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12 MDS

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14

196-201
205-209

13 Network Weather Service

14 R-GMA

209-214

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16

15 Other Monitoring Systems - Ganglia

217-219

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17

16 GridMon

219-220

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18

Unit III GRID SECURITY AND

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
17 Grid Security

10
11
12

15

(9 hrs)
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123-124

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19

18 A Brief Security Primer

124-127

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19 PKI-X509 Certificates

130-132

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20 Grid Scheduling and Resource Management

Review/Slip Test II

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21 Scheduling Paradigms

244-245
245-248

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22 Working principles of Scheduling

248-254

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23 A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF

24 Grid Scheduling with QoS

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254-288
290-297

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20

21

1
1

22
23

24

25

4
2

29
31

Unit IV DATA MANAGEMENT

AND GRID PORTALS
Data Management-Categories and Origins of
Structured Data
Data Management
26
Challenges
25

(9 hrs)
R1

397-400

R1

400-403

27 Architectural Approaches

R1

404-405

28 Collective Data Management Services

R1

413-417

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29 Federation Services

R1

417-424

30 Grid Portals

336

31 First-Generation Grid Portals

337-349

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32 Second-Generation Grid Portals

350-372

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Unit V GRID MIDDLEWARE

33 List of globally available Middlewares
Case Studies-Recent version of Globus
34
Toolkit
35 gLite - Architecture
36 gLite- Components and Features
Topics beyond syllabus
Organizations Developing Grid Computing
1
Standards, toolkits and the framework
2 NEESGrid, Virtual Observatory Tools

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43

R2

239-374

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45

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46
47

50

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Total

51

51 hrs

Content Beyond Syllabus:

1
2

Organizations Developing Grid Computing Standards, toolkits and the framework

NEESGrid, Virtual Observatory Tools.

Text Book:

1. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, The Grid Core Technologies, John Wiley &
Sons ,2005.

References:

1. Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman, The Grid 2 Blueprint for a New
Computing Infrascture , Morgan Kaufman 2004.
2. Joshy Joseph & Craig Fellenstein, Grid Computing, Pearson
Education 2004.
3. Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G.Hey, Grid Computing:
Making the Global Infrastructure a reality, John Wiley and sons,
2003.

COURSE OUTCOME
1. Students will understand the key concepts of Grid computing.
2. Students will understand the Grid computing standards and its toolkits.
3. Students will be able to understand about Grid computing history ,evolution of Grid and
its Security issues
4. Students will gain a basic knowledge of Data management and transfer in Grid
environments and Resource management.
5. Students will be encouraged to adapt their research problem in a Grid environment as a
project.