Grid Computing
DCC/FCUP
Inês Dutra
[email protected]
office: 1.31
Organization
url: http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ines/aulas/1314/CG/CG.html
Program:
Introduction
Review of parallel and distributed programming
Review of distributed systems
Definitions and concepts
Grid architectures
Grid taxonomy
Grid applications taxonomy
“Gridification”
Task management
Data management
Resource and Task scheduing
Grid Middleware
Job Description Languages
The gLite middleware
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Evaluation: 1 exam and 4 assignments (?) + short presentations
Evaluation metric and criteria
Bibliography:
Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, F. Berman,
G. C. Fox and A. J. G. Hey editors, Wiley, 2003,
ISBN 0-470-85319-0.
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (The Elsevier
Series in Grid Computing) by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
(Hardcover - Nov 18, 2003)
The Grid Technology Cookbook, Mary Trauner and Mary Fran Yafchak
Introduction to Grid Computing (Chapman and Hall/CRC Numerical
Analysis and Scientific Computation Series) by Frederic Magoules, Jie
Pan, Kiat-An Tan and Abhinit Kumar , 2009
Various articles (will be available in the webpage of the discipline)
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Organization
Communication alternatives
Favorite: email (
[email protected])
Sigarra web page of the discipline
Internal DCC mailing list:
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Let’s start from the beginning
What is a grid?
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Let’s start from the beginning
What is a grid?
Is it a cluster?
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Let’s start from the beginning
What is a grid?
Is it a collection of data?
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Let’s start from the beginning
What is a grid?
Is it a collection of machines?
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Let’s start from the beginning
What is a grid?
Is it superman?
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What is a grid?
Several definitions...
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What is a grid?
The infrastructure used by utility companies to distribute
power to its consumers.
www.borregosolar.com/resources/glossary.php
A system of transmission lines which interconnect the
generating stations and distribution centres of local
electricity authorities.
www.ergon.com.au/energyed/glossary.asp
A distribution network, including towers, poles, and wires
that a utility uses to deliver electricity.
www.sunpowercorp.com/homeowners/solar_basics_glos
sary.html
A network of power lines or pipelines used to move
energy.
www.windustry.org/resources/glossary.htm
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What is a computational grid?
Originally used to denote a hardware and
software infrastructure that enables applying
the resources of many computers to a single
problem.
Now increasingly used to denote more
broadly a hardware and software
infrastructure that enables coordinated
resource sharing within dynamic
organizations consisting of individuals,
institutions, and resources.
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What is a computational grid?
A set of clusters?
More than that:
VirtualOrganization that allows clustering of
resources that are geographically apart
Resources can be machines, data,
instruments etc
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Sites of interest
GGF, www.gridforum.org
Links to grid projects and initiatives
Globus, www.globus.org
OSG, www.opensciencegrid.org
EGEE, www.eu-egee.org
DEISA, www.deisa.org
EGI, www.eu-egi.org
Gridbus, www.gridbus.org
Grid Computing Info Centre, www.gridcomputing.com
...
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Main conferences and journals
Grid Computing
Super Computing
High performance and distributed computing
Cluster and grid computing
Grid and Pervasive Computing
Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Journal of Grid Computing
Journal of High Performance applications
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
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Research Challenges
Applications
Programming models and tools
System architecture
Algorithms and problem solving methods
Resource management
Data management
Security
Instrumentation and performance analysis
End systems
Network protocols and infrastructure
Fonte: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing
Infrastructure, by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
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Motivation
Scientific: allow coordinated and organized
access to remote resources
Political: allow coordinated and organized
access to non-confidential and confidential
data
Financial: justify investment on HEP
Social: helps to fill the digital divide gap
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