LESSON PLAN

CS6703
Unit Syllabus UNIT I

GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING

INTRODUCTION

Evolution of Distributed computing: Scalable computing over the Internet Technologies for network
based systems clusters of cooperative computers - Grid computing Infrastructures cloud computing service oriented architecture Introduction to Grid Architecture and standards Elements of Grid
Overview of Grid Architecture.

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INTRODUCTION
Evolution of Distributed computing:
Scalable computing over the Internet

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Technologies for network based

systems

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clusters of cooperative computers

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Grid computing Infrastructures

Cloud computing

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Service oriented architecture

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Introduction to Grid Architecture and

standards

Elements of Grid

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Overview of Grid Architecture

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GRID SERVICES

Introduction to Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) Motivation Functionality Requirements

Practical & Detailed view of OGSA/OGSI Data intensive grid service models OGSA services.

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Introduction to.Grid Services.

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Open Grid Services Architecture

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Motivation

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Functionality Requirement

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Practical view of OGSA/OGSI

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Detailed view of OGSA/OGSI

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Data intensive grid service models

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OGSA services

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OGSA services

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UNIT III

VIRTUALIZATION

Cloud deployment models: public, private, hybrid, community Categories of cloud computing:
Everything as a service: Infrastructure, platform, software - Pros and Cons of cloud computing
Implementation levels of virtualization virtualization structure virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O
devices virtual clusters and Resource Management Virtualization for data center automation.

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Cloud deployment models: public,

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private, hybrid community

Categories of cloud computing:

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Infrastructure, platform.
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Pros and Cons of cloud

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Implementation levels of
virtualization

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virtualization structure .
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virtualization of CPU, Memory and

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I/O devices .
virtual clusters and Resource

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Management.
Virtualization for data center

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automation.
PROGRAMMING MODEL

Open source grid middleware packages Globus Toolkit (GT4) Architecture , Configuration Usage of
Globus Main components and Programming model - Introduction to Hadoop Framework - Map reduce,
Input splitting, map and reduce functions, specifying input and output parameters, configuring and
running a job Design of Hadoop file system, HDFS concepts, command line and java interface,
dataflow of File read & File write.

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Open source grid middleware

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packages
Globus Toolkit (GT4) Architecture ,

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Configuration
Usage of Globus

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Main components and Programming

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model
Introduction to Hadoop Framework

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Map reduce, Input splitting, map and

reduce functions, specifying input
and output parameters, configuring
and running a job
Design of Hadoop file system

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HDFS concepts
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Command line and java interface,

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dataflow of File read & File write.

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SECURITY

Trust models for Grid security environment Authentication and Authorization methods Grid security
infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure security: network, host and application level aspects of data
security, provider data and its security, Identity and access management architecture, IAM practices in the
cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS availability in the cloud, Key privacy issues in the cloud.

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Trust models for Grid security

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environment
Authentication and Authorization

methods

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Grid security infrastructure

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Cloud Infrastructure security:

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network host and application level

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aspects of data security

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provider data and its security,

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Identity and access management

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architecture,

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IAM practices in the cloud, SaaS,

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PaaS, IaaS availability in the cloud.

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Key privacy issues in the cloud.

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OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
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Apply grid computing techniques to solve large scale scientific problems

Apply the concept of virtualization

Use the grid and cloud tool kits

Apply the security models in the grid and the cloud environment

TEXT BOOK:

1. Kai Hwang, Geoffery C. Fox and Jack J. Dongarra, Distributed and Cloud Computing:
Clusters, Grids, Clouds and the Future of Internet, First Edition, Morgan Kaufman
Publisher, an Imprint of Elsevier, 2012.

REFERENCES:
1. Jason Venner, Pro Hadoop- Build Scalable, Distributed Applications in the Cloud, A Press, 2009
2. Tom White, Hadoop The Definitive Guide, First Edition. OReilly, 2009.
3. Bart Jacob (Editor), Introduction to Grid Computing, IBM Red Books, Vervante, 2005
4. Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 2 nd Edition,
Morgan Kaufmann.
5. Frederic Magoules and Jie Pan, Introduction to Grid Computing CRC Press, 2009.
6. Daniel Minoli, A Networking Approach to Grid Computing, John Wiley Publication, 2005.
7. Barry Wilkinson, Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications, Chapman and Hall, CRC, Taylor
and Francis Group, 2010.