06CS845 - Grid Computing |
PART – A |
UNIT 1 |
INTRODUCTION, GRID COMPUTING ORGANIZATIONS AND
THEIR ROLES: Early Grid Activities, Current Grid Activities, An
Overview of Grid Business Areas, Grid Applications, Grid Infrastructure.
Organizations Developing Grid Standards and Best Practice Guidelines,
Organizations Developing Grid Computing Toolkits and the Framework,
Organizations Building and Using Grid-Based Solutions to Solve Computing,
Data and Network Requirements, Commercial Organizations Building and
Using Grid-Based Solutions |
UNIT 2 |
THE GRID COMPUTING ANATOMY, ROAD MAP: The Grid
Problem. Anatomy Computing, Business on Demand and Infrastructure
Virtualization, Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid, Semantic Grids. |
UNIT 3 |
ARCHITECTURES – 1: Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services
Architecture, XML, Related Technologies and Their Relevance to Web
Services, XML Messages and Enveloping, Service Message Description
Mechanisms. |
UNIT 4 |
ARCHITECTURES – 2: Relationship between Web Service and Grid
Service, Web Service Interoperability and the Role of the WS-I Organization, OGSA Architecture and Goals, Commercial Data Center
(CDC), National Fusion Collaborator (NFS), Online Media and
Entertainment |
PART – B |
UNIT 5 |
THE OGSA PLATFORM COMPONENTS, OGSI – 1: Native Platform
Services and Transport Mechanisms, OGSA Hosting Environment, Core
Networking Services Transport and Security, OGSA Infrastructure, OGSA
Basic Services. Grid Services, A High-Level Introduction to OGSI (Open
Grid Services Infrastructure). |
UNIT 6 |
OGSI – 2: Technical Details of OGSI Specification, Introduction to Service
Data Concepts, Grid Service: Naming and Change Management
Recommendations |
UNIT 7 |
OGSA BASIC SERVICES – 1: Common Management Model (CMM),
Service Domains, Policy Architecture, Security Architecture, Metering and
Accounting. |
UNIT 8 |
OGSA BASIC SERVICES - 2, TOOLKIT: Common Distributed Logging,
Distributed Data Access and Replication. GLOBUS GT3 Toolkit
Architecture. |
REFERENCE |
TEXT BOOKS: |
1. Craig Fellenstein: Grid Computing – Joshy Joseph, IBM Press,
2007.
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Reference Books |
1. Grid and Cluster Computing, Prentice – Prabhu, Prentice Hall of
India, 2007. |
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