CS 2063 GRID COMPUTING L T P C
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UNIT I CONCEPTS AND ARCHITECTURE 9
Introduction-Parallel and Distributed Computing-Cluster Computing-Grid Computing-
Anatomy and Physiology of Grid-Review of Web Services-OGSA-WSRF.
UNIT II GRID MONITORING 9
Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA) - An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems- GridICE
– JAMM -MDS-Network Weather Service-R-GMA-Other Monitoring Systems- Ganglia
and GridMon
UNIT III GRID SECURITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 9
Grid Security-A Brief Security Primer-PKI-X509 Certificates-Grid Security-Grid
Scheduling and Resource Management-Scheduling Paradigms- Working principles of
Scheduling -A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF-Grid Scheduling with QoS.
UNIT IV DATA MANAGEMENT AND GRID PORTALS 9
Data Management-Categories and Origins of Structured Data-Data Management
Challenges-Architectural Approaches-Collective Data Management Services-Federation
Services-Grid Portals-First-Generation Grid Portals-Second-Generation Grid Portals.
UNIT V GRID MIDDLEWARE 9
List of globally available Middlewares - Case Studies-Recent version of Globus Toolkit
and gLite - Architecture, Components and Features.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, The Grid Core Technologies, John Wiley & Sons ,2005.
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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.