MCIT – 302(C) Grid Computing

UNIT – I

The Grid - The Evolution of the Grid - Grids and Grid Technologies, Overview of Grid systems, Grid activities,

Grid Business Areas, Applications, Programming models -A Look at a Grid Enabled Server and Parallelization

Techniques – Grid applications

UNIT – II

The concept of virtual organizations – Grid architecture – Grid architecture and relationship to other Distributed

Technologies – computational and data Grids, semantic grids.

UNIT – III

Grid Management systems, Grid security, Grid-Enabling software and Grid enabling network services, Data

Grid - Virtualization Services for Data Grids, Peer-to-Peer Grids - Peer-to-Peer Grid Databases for Web Service

Discovery, Merging the Grid service Architecture with Web service Architecture, Relationship between Web

services & Grid services

UNIT – IV

Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI):Introduction-Grid services- High-level introduction to OGSITechnical

details- Introduction to service data components- Grid service: Naming & change management

recommendations, Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA):OGSA Basic Services: Common Management

model (CMM)-service domains- policy architecture- security architecture- Mastering & Accounting- common

distributed Logging

UNIT – V

Grid Middleware, Resource management and scheduling, setting up Grid, deployment of Grid software and

tools, and application execution, Compilers, Languages and Libraries for the Grid, Grid Application Description

Languages, Application Partitioning, Grid Portals

REFERENCES:

1. Joshy Joseph, Craig Fallenstein, "Grid Computing", Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2004.

2. Fran Bermn, Geoffrey Fox, Anthony Hey J.G., "Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a

Reality", Wiley, USA, 2003.

3. Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, "The Grid2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure", Morgan Kaufman,

New Delhi, 2004

4. Ahmar Abbas, "Grid Computing: Practical Guide to Technology and Applications", Delmar Thomson

Learning, USA, 2004.