GRID COMPUTING

Grid computing: Introduction - Definition and Scope, need for computational grids, potential users and techniques for use of grids. Grid requirements of end users, application developers, tool developers, grid developers, and system managers.

Grid computing initiatives:   Grid Computing Organizations and their roles – Grid Computing analog – Grid Computing road map. Computing Platforms. Operating Systems and Network Interfaces. Compilers, Languages and Libraries for the Grid. Grid Scheduling, Resource Management, Resource Brokers, Resource Reservations.

Grid computing applications: Merging the Grid sources – Architecture with the Web Devices Architecture. Grid Architecture, Networking Infrastructure, Protocols and Quality of Service.  Instrumentation and Measurement, Performance Analysis and Visualization. Security, Accounting and Assurance

Technologies: OGSA – Sample use cases – OAGSA platform components – OGSI – OGSA Basic Services. Open Grid Service Architecture and Data Grids. Grid Portal Development Application Types: geographically distributed, high-throughput, on demand, collaborative, and data intensive supercomputing, computational steering, real-time access to distributed instrumentation systems.

Grid computing tool kits: Globus GT 3 Toolkit – Architecture, Programming model, High level services – OGSI .Net middleware Solutions. The Globus Toolkit: Core systems and related tools such as the Message Passing Interface communication library, the Remote I/O (RIO) library, and the Nimrod parameter study library, Legion and related software, Condor and the Grid. A CASE study of Grid Computing for a Telecommunications Data Center organizations.