CSE225: Grids and
High Performance Distributed Computing
Winter 2003
MW
First meeting:
Professor:
Dr. Andrew A. Chien achien@ucsd.edu APM 4808
Course Administrative
Support: Patricia Bladh pbladh@csag.ucsd.edu APM 6414
Abstract
Computational and Data Grids have become the focus of national research projects in many countries (USA, UK, Japan, Korea, India, etc.) as well as the focus of the commercial strategies of major computing companies (IBM, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, etc.). Despite the excitement and some successes, major research challenges exist if the vision of grids providing “on-demand creation of powerful virtual computing systems which span organizational boundaries”.
Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:
Defining Grids. What are computational and data grids? How what are the new technical capabilities and challenges they represent?
Resource Discovery and Access. Resource description and discovery protocols. Acquiring access. Communication.
Grid Security. Multi-administrative domain challenges, and current techniques and solutions. Open challenges.
Scheduling/Resource Selection. Identification, negotiation, coscheduling, achieving QoS, scaling.
Data Grids. Coordinated data and computation scheduling, replica management.
A Variety of Example Grid/P2P systems: Globus/OGSA, JXTA, Condor, Ninf, Entropia, Netsolve, etc.
Readings
The class will involve the reading original research papers and chapters from two books, as well as laboratory exercises in building Grid systems.
- The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, (eds. Foster, Kesselman), 1998.
- Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, (eds. Fox, Berman, Hey), Wiley and Sons 2003.
In both cases, new editions are being prepared for early 2003, and we will use draft materials from the authors. Test
Course Handouts
Project Assignment and the planned Projects and Teams
Grid Computing Resources
This course can be repeated for credit, and will vary
significantly from previous quarters.
For more information contact
or see the course web site http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/teaching/cse225w03/