The grid virtualizes heterogeneous geographically disperse resources. From "Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus," IBM Redbooks

Grid Computing Fall 2004 Tuesday/Thursday 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm WCU room: University Outreach Center 133B WCU course number: CS 493-02 Dr. Barry Wilkinson Western Carolina University  and  Dr. Clayton Ferner University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Figure due to Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

This course originates at Western Carolina University and is broadcast on NC Research and Education Network (NCREN) to universities and colleges across the state.  It is currently received at NC State University, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, University of North Carolina at Asheville, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC Central University, Appalachian State University, and Elon University. Some lectures are given from University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The course is being developed with partial support from the National Science Foundation and the University of North Carolina Office of the President. The course development team at Western Carolina University includes Dr. Mark Holliday, and undergraduate students Jeffrey House and James Ruff. For more details see Departmental grid computing web site (MAGIC)

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The following slides are provided as Powerpoint slides.  You may wish to print these sides out as 1 x 2 or 2 x 3 thumbnails. Do not use slides until shown as "ready" in the ready column (generally one or two days before the class).
 

Lecture slides (Powerpoint format)

Date	Slides	Ready	Topics
Aug. 26, 2004	outline	Yes	Course outline, prerequisites, course text,  course contents, assessment, instructor details.
Aug. 26, 2004	slides1	Yes	Grid computing, virtual organizations, computational grid projects, grid computing networks, TeraGrid, grid projects in the US and around the world, grid challenges
Aug. 31, 2004	slides2	Yes	Basic Internet technologies (review) , IP addresses, HTTP, URL, HTTP, XML, Telnet, FTP, SSL.
Aug. 31, 2004	slides3a	Yes	Web Services I.  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service registry, XML documents, XML schema, namespaces,  SOAP, XML/SOAP examples, Axis
Sept. 2, 2004	slides3b	Yes	Web Services II. WSDL, portType, message definition, WSDL to/from code
Sept. 2, 2004	slidesA1	Yes	Assignment 1 "Simple" Web service Java programming assignment. Tomcat environment,  axis, JWS facility,
Sept. 7, 2004	slides4	Yes	Grid Service concepts, differences to Web services, stateful/stateless/transient/non-transient, Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), OGSI, grid service factory, Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
Sept. 9, 2004	slides5	Yes	Security, secure connection, authorization requirements, symmetric and asymmetric (public/private) key cyptography, non-repudiation, digital signatures, certificates, certificate authorities, X509 certificate
Sept. 14, 2004	slides5a	Yes	Security continued, double encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), more on Certificate Authorities, requesting a certificate, using a certificate, Certificate Authority for grid computing, GSI authentication/authorization
Sept. 14, 2004	slidesA2	Yes	Assignment 2: "Simple" grid service Java programming assignment. Globus 3.2 environment.Tools: ant
Sept. 20, 2004	Slides	Yes	Taped presentation "The Grid: Beyond the Hype," by Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, originally given at Duke University, Sept. 14th, 2004
Sept. 23, 2004	slides6a	Yes	Globus: - Basic structure, Resource management, Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM), grid service container, service browser, Resource Specification Language (RSL and RSL-2), syntax and examples in RSL and RSl-2, Master Managed Job Factory Service (MMJFS), managed-job-globusrun
Sept. 28, 2004	slidesA3	Yes	Assignment 3: Submitting a GT 3 Job, GT3 mangaged-job-globusrun, job specified in RSL-2 (XML file)
Sept. 28, 2004	slides6c	Yes	Globus: - Information services, resource discovery, LDAP, centralized system, GT3 information services (MDS), GRIS, GIIS, grid service discovery, service data.
Sept. 30, 2004	slides6d	Yes	Schedulers and resource brokers, Condor, types of jobs, DAGMan, ClassAd, job submission, Condor-G.
Oct 7, 2004			Review for WebCT quiz 1
			Assignment 4: Submitting a Condor-G Job
Oct 12, 2004	slides7a	Yes	High performance computing, grand challenge problems, parallel computing, potential speed-up, types of parallel computers, shared memory multiprocessors, programming, message-passing multicomputers, basic message passing techniques, history, Beowulf clusters, system software, programming models (MPMD, SPMD), synchronous message passing, asynchronous message passing, message tags, collective routines (broadcast, scatter, gather, reduce)
Oct 19, 2004	slides9	Yes	MPI, process creation, communicators, unsafe message passing, point-to-point message-passing, blocking, non-blocking, communication modes, collective communication, running an MPI program on a cluster
Oct 21, 2004	slides10	yes	Grid-enabled MPI, MPI-G2 internals, mpirun command, RSL script, Parallel programming, techniques suitable for a Grid, embarrassingly parallel computations, Monte Carlo, parameter studies
			Assignment 6 Running a simple MPI-G2 program
Oct 26, 2004	slides:  ppt pdf html	Yes	GridNexus UNCW GUI for Workflow Management (www.gridnexus.org). Presented by Clayton Ferner
Oct 28, 2004	jxpl-intro	Yes	Implementation of GridNexus, JXPL. Presented by Jeff Brown
			Assignment 5: UNCC-W workflow assignment
Nov 2, 2004	slides11a slides11b	Yes	Grid portals, purpose, application-based portals, historical examples, GPDK, Gridport, Hotpage, NCSA Alliance portal, DOE Fusion Grid portal, etc., portal implementation, portlets, JSR 168, OGCE portal
Nov 4, 2004 onwards			Revisiting earlier topics and review. Review for WebCT quiz 2. Discussion on assignments.
			Current state-of-the-art, applications, ... to be covered by expert guest speakers:
Nov 16, 2004			Guest speaker, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Mangaing Director, MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services.  Title of presentation "Grid Computing in the Industry"
Nov. 18, 2004			Presentation by Sammie Carter, NCSU, "Wolfgrid: the ncsu community supercomputer and Datamation Sort using OpenMP and MPI."
Nov. 23, 2004			Guest speaker: Professor Daniel A. Reed, Chancellor's Eminent Professor, Director of Institute for Renaissance Computing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and  NC State University.
Nov 30, 2004			Guest speaker: Chuck Kesler, Director, Grid Deployment and Data Center Services, MCNC.  Tentative title of presentation: "Security Policy, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges in Grid Computing Environments."
Dec 2, 2004			Last class for all sites. (WCU will meet for one extra week.)

Course text

A specific textbook is not assigned for the course.  A lot of materials can be found on-line.

Reading/on-line materials

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Class tests:

Topics for test 1: Slides up to and including slides6c, assignments 1, 2, and 3.

Topics for test 2: Slides from slides6d to slides 10 inclusive.

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Ideally, students will use local computer equipment if required software installed.  Otherwise, they will be given accounts on an WCU system to access remotely.  All software can be obtained free and downloaded.

Software required for course

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