Module: GRID COMPUTING

Number of credits: 5

Lecturers: Karim Djemame and Fernando Lopez Pelayo

Goal: learning about the state of art in designing complex distributed systems using Grid Technology

Programme

•         Background

–        Distributed Systems

–        Web services

–        Service Oriented Architectures

•         Grid technology (background)

–        Concepts

–        Architectures

–        Services

–        Protocols

•         Grid Middleware projects

–        Legion

–        Globus

–        Unicore

•         Grid Middleware: Globus

–        Security

–        Information services

–        Resource management

–        Data transfer

•         Grid Applications

–        Examples: Physics, Visualisation, Bioinformatics etc

•         Grid Infrastructures

–        Examples of large scale projects

–        EU GridLab, EU DataGrid, TeraGrid

–        E-infrastructures

•         Programming Languages and Environments

–        Programming the Grid

–        Legacy code

•         Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) and the Grid

–        Web services and Grid services

–        WSRF

•         Grid Resource Scheduling

–        Sun Grid Engine

–        Condor-G

–        Nimrod-G

•         Performance Aspects on the Grid

•         Grid related issues I

–        Knowledge Grid

–        Data Grid

–        Information Grid

–        Computational Grid

•         Grid related issues II

–        Grid portals

–        Quality of Service

–        Grid Economy

–        Collaboration on the Grid

•         Assessment