An overview of Current Trends in
Grid Computing
Date : August 05-06, 2004
Venue : Dept. of Inf. Tech, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai
Workshop Co-ordinator : Dr.VCV.Rao, C-DAC, Pune University Campus
Time (Hrs)
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Title / Activity
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Speaker
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| 0900~0930 |
Inauguration : Inauguration
of Grid Comptuing workshop (Dr. K. Jayaraman, Registrar, Anna University;
Dr. P. Kanagasabapathy, Dean, M.I.T. Campus; Prof. S. Thamarai
Selvi, Professor and Head, Dept. of Inf. Tech,, MIT Campus; Dr.
VCV.Rao, Group Coordinator, Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC, Pune)
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C-DAC
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| 0930~1030 |
Introduction to Grid Computing What
is grid? What is Globus ? Why should I care about this Grid Stuff
? What is involved in the Globus project ? Who is using the Globus
Toolkit ? Is'nt it a lot of work to use Globus in my application
? Types of Grid Computing : Computational, Data, Science, Access,
and knowledge Prof.
S. Thamarai Selvi, Dept,of Inf Tech., MIT
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MIT
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| 1030~1130 |
Classification of Grid applications: Issues
and Challenges,Classification of Grid applications Distributed,
Collaborative, Data-Intensive, On-demand; Category of applications
- Loosely Coupled; Pipelined; Tightly Synchronized; Widely Distributed;
Compute and Data Intensive Applications
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| 1130~1145 |
Tea
break
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| 1145~1230 |
An Overview Globus Toolkit 2.4 and Ideal
Grid Architecture What is in the Globus Tool kit
2.4? An overview of Globus Toolkit 2.4 Project, GRAM (Globus
Resource Allocation Manager); GSS (Global Security Services);
How does Globus project compare to Condor and Legion? Description
of Five layered Grid Architecture - Fabric, Connectivity, Resource,
Collective and Application; An overview of Grid Services
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C-DAC
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| 1230~1300 |
An Overview of Grid Progrmaming and some
Indications : Grid Programming and Some Indications:
Grid Programming-Indications; Challenges; How to design Grid
aware applications? (New Programming models, tools and languages;
Developers -Grid, tools, & Applications); Grid Programming
models (Communication models: Shared data and Shared nothing);
Grid Global Compiling System
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C-DAC
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| 1300~1400 |
Lunch
Break
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| 1400~1530 |
Grid Programming-An overview of tools
and Environments Part I : Grid enabled Message Passing
libraries - (MPICH-G2, PACX-MPI, MetaMPICH); Role of Grid Middleware;
Grid based Middleware Tools; (Network-enabled server - GRID
RPC; Component based technology- CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans
(EJB); XML-based technologies; Scripting languages); Grid Programming-Indications;
How to design Grid aware applications? (New Programming models,
tools and languages; Developers -Grid, tools, & Applications);
Grid Programming models; Grid Global Compiling System
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C-DAC
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| 1530~1600 |
Building Grid Services using Globus 2.4
Toolkit Operational Issues and Examples
|
C-DAC
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| 1600~1615 |
Tea
break
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| 1615~1700 |
Globus 3.2 Tool Kit An Overview
and Demonstration of Globus 3.2 Toolkit by Dept. of Information Technology Staff
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- MIT
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Time (Hrs)
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Title / Activity
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Speaker
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| 0900~1030 |
Current
Trends in Globus Toolkit : Web Services and Grids, Grid
Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) Protocols; Avaialble Web
Servcie Components; XML Based Technolgies, Script Languages ; HTTP,
DNS, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocols), Web Service Description
Language (WSDL) (Dr S. Thamarai Selvi, MIT Campus, Anna University)
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MIT |
| 1030~1130 |
Grid
Programming- An overview of tools and environments Part II : Grid
Middleware (Frame work -Core Features of Problem Solving Environments;
Framework- Cactus Tool; Interoperability between various data parallel
runtime libraries; Meta-Chaos Framework -Efficient distribution
of data structures by user or Compiler; Global Grid Compilation
System (GrADS) project; & Grid Portals) (C-DAC, Pune)
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C-DAC
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| 1130~1145 |
Tea break
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| 1145~1300 |
Current
Trends -An Overview of Grid Resource Brokers : Introduction,
functionality; Job Scheduling and Resource Managenment Techniques
in Dynamic Grid Envrionment, Resource Selection, Job Scheduling,
Resource Allocation and Management, Quality of Services, Available
resource brokers-Nimrod/G, Condor-G (C-DAC, Pune)
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C-DAC |
| 1300~1400 |
Lunch Break
|
| 1400~1500 |
An
overview of Globus 3.2 Toolkit : An overview of Globus
3.2 toolkit; Web Services XML, SOAP; Introductory concepts of service-oriented
grid architecture; OGSA and OGSI; GT3 architecture; Grid Service
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C-DAC
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| 1530~1630 |
Current
Trends in Grid Benchmarks: Current
Trends- Grid Benchmarks and Performance: Grid low level benchmarks;
Grid Probe Benchmarks; Grid Synthetic Benchmarks, Compute intensive
Grid Benchmarks and Data Intensive Grid Benchmarks
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C-DAC
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| 1630~1645 |
Tea break
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| 1645~1730 |
Grid
Computing : Open Discussions and Future directions / Valedictory
Function (Shri M.R. RajaGopalan, Prog. Coordinator,
Head C-DAC, Chennai, Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi; Professor and Head,
Dept. of Inf Tech, MIT Campus, Dr. VCV.Rao, Group Coordinator,
C-DAC, Pune)
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