CS 2063 GRID COMPUTING Syllabus

CS 2063   GRID COMPUTING  Syllabus

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.


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.