With Effect From the Academic Year 2013-14

BIT 409

GRID COMPUTING(ELECTIVE –III)

Instruction  per Week                                                                                                4 Periods
Duration of University Examination                                                                                      3 Hours
University Examination                                                                                              75 Marks
Sessional                                                                                                                     25 Marks

UNIT - I

Introduction to Grid Computing: Grid Computing Concept, History of Distributed Computing Computational Grid Applications, Grid Computing Infrastructure Development, Grid Computing Software Interface Job Submission: Introduction, Globus Job Submission, Transferring Files.

UNIT - II

Schedulers: Scheduler Features, Scheduler Examples, Grid Computing Meta-Schedulers, Distributed Resource Management Application (DRMAA).

Security Concepts: Introduction, Symmetric Key Cryptography, Asymmetric Key Cryptography, (Public Key Cryptography), Public Key Infrastructure, Systems/Protocols Using Security Mechanisms.

Grid Security: Introduction, Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), Delegation, Higher-Level Authorization Tools.

UNIT - III

System Infrastructure I: Web Services: Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services and Web Service Implementation.

System Infrastructure II: Grid Computing Services: Grid Computing and Standardization Bodies, Interacting Grid Computing Components, Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), WSRF.

User-Friendly Interfaces: Introduction Grid Computing Workflow Editors, Grid Portals.

UNIT - IV

Grid-Enabling Applications: Introduction, Parameter Sweep, Using an Existing Program on Multiple Grid Computers, Writing an Application Specifically for a Grid, Using Multiple Grid Computers to Solve a Single Problem.

UNIT - V
Case Studies:

Globus: Overview of Globus Toolkit 4, Installation of Globus, GT4 Configuration, Main Components and programming Model, Using Globus.

gLite: Introduction, Internal Workings of gLite, Logging and Bookkeeping (LB), Security Mechanism Using gLite.

Resource management using Gridway and Gridbus.

Scheduling using Condor, SGE, PBS, LSF Grid scheduling with QoS.

Suggested Reading:

1) Barry Wilkinson, "Grid Computing Techniques and Applications", CRC Press, 2010.

2) Frederic Magoules, Jie Pan, Kiat-An Tan, Abhinit Kumar, “Introduction to Grid Computing” CRC Press, 2009.

3) Vladimir Silva, "Grid Computing for Developers ", Dreamtech Press, 2006.

4) Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman. "The Grid 2- Blueprint for a new computing Infrastructure". Elsevier Series, 2004.

5) Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox. Anthony J.G Hey, "Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality", Wiley, 2003.

6) Joshey Joseph, Craig Fellenstein, "Grid computing", IBM Press, 2004.