Topics in Grid Computing

SE 293 (3:0)

Topics in Grid Computing

Class

Karthikeyan, Vishwas

Instructor

Sathish Vadhiyar

Books

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (2nd edition) by Ian Foster (Editor), Carl Kesselman (Editor) Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2^nd edition (November 2003) ISBN: 1-558-60933-4.
Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality by Francine Berman (Editor), Geoffrey Fox (Editor), Tony Hey (Editor) Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; (April 8, 2003) ISBN: 0-470-85319-0.
Grid Resource Management: State of the Art and Future Trends by Jarek Nabrzyski (Editor), Jennifer M. Schopf (Editor), Jon Weglarz (Editor) Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers; (September 2003) ISBN: 1-402-07575-8.

Syllabus

Orientation

Introduction ppt
1. Motivation
2. Definitions of Grid Computing
3. Evolution of the Grid
4. Differences with similar efforts (Meta, cluster, heterogeneous, Internet)
5. Examples of usage
The Earliest Grid Motivations
1. High Performance computing across installation sites - the PACX-MPI example ppt
2. High Throughput computing using non-dedicated workstations - Condor Part1, Part2, Condor Publication on Checkpointing Technique
The Building Blocks of Grid
1. The Globus toolkit ppt
2. Security - Kherberos vs Globus GSI ppt
3. Information Services - NWS ppt
HPC and Grids
1. Scheduling HPC applications in Grids
  1. Scheduling Parameter sweep applications ppt
  2. Metascheduling ppt
2. Rescheduling ppt, part2
3. Fault Detection ppt
4. Data Management in Grids ppt
Advanced Topics
1. Grid Applications ppt
2. Other topics
  1. Grid simulation ppt
  2. Grid economy ppt
  3. Grid RPC ppt
3. Grid standards and forums - OGSA, WSRF, GGF etc. ppt

Assignments

Class Paper Presentations

Name	Date	Paper Title	Presentation
Ramanjulu	September 13	Predictable Divisible Load Scheduling on Grid Platforms with APST-DV	link
Karthikeyan	September 27	Evaluation of a workflow scheduler using integrated performance modeling and batch queue wait times	link
Vishwas	October 4	Job scheduling and processor allocation for grid computing on metacomputers	link
Karthikeyan	October 18	Implementation and Evaluation of a Scalable Application Level Checkpoint-Recovery Schemes for MPI Programs	link
Vishwas	October 25	Failure Aware Checkpointing in FGCS Systems	link
Karthikeyan	November 13	Dynamic Load Balancing and Efficient Load Estimators for Asynchronous Iterative Algorithms	link
Vishwas	November 17	Optimizing Reduction Computations in a Distributed Environment	link

Final Project

Papers to Look at: