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

Grid Computing Fall 2005 Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 am - 12:20 pm NCREN room UNC-C course number:  ITCS 4010-001 Dr. Barry Wilkinson University of North Carolina at Charlotte  and  Dr. Clayton Ferner University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Figure due to Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

This course is taught from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and is broadcast on NC Research and Education Network (NCREN) to universities and colleges across the state.  It is currently received at Appalachian State University, Elon University, NC State University, University of North Carolina at Asheville, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Western Carolina University, Winston-Salem State University, Lenoir Rhyne College, and Wake Technical Community College. The course is being developed with partial support from the National Science Foundation under grant DUE 0410667 (Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program), DUE 0533334  (additional funding), and two grants from the University of North Carolina Office of the President. The course was first broadcast in Fall 2004 (course home page).

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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)

Wk	Date	Slides	Number of slides	Ready	Topics
1	Aug. 23, 2005	outline	32	Yes	Course outline, prerequisites, course text,  course contents, assessment, instructor details.
1	Aug 23, 2005	assignprelim	17	Yes	Important information regarding computer systems to use, set-up procedures, and submission of assignments.
1	Aug. 23/25, 2005	slides1	41	Yes	Grid computing, virtual organizations, computational grid projects, grid computing networks, grid computing infrastructure, history of Globus Toolkit.
1	Aug 25, 2005	slides2	47	Yes	Basic Internet technologies (review) , IP addresses, Telnet, FTP, HTTP, SSL, URL, HTML, XML.
2	Aug 25/30, 2005	slides3a	67	Yes	Web Services I.  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service registry, XML documents, XML schema, namespaces,  SOAP, XML/SOAP examples, Axis
2	Sept 1, 2005	slides3b	52	Yes	Web Services II. WSDL, portType, message definition, WSDL to/from code
2	Sept 6, 2005	slidesA1	28	Yes	Assignment 1 "Simple" Web service Java programming assignment. Tomcat environment,  axis, JWS facility,
3	Sept 6, 2005	slides3c	14	Yes	Elements of a WSDL document. More detail.
3	Sept 6, 2005	slides3d	17	Yes	More on XML. XML schema definition language, XSD.
3	Sept 6, 2005	slides4a	12	Yes	Grid computing standards, Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA),  Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
3	Sept. 8, 2005				End-to-End discussion and demonstration by Mark Holliday
4	Sept 13, 2005	slides4b	28	Yes	Components of Globus 4.0: - Basic structure, brief description of main services and components, common runtime, GT4 core, security, execution management, data management, information services.
4	Sept 13/15, 2005	slides4c	42	Yes	Web Service Resource Framework: Creating Globus 4 Globus 4.0 services
4	Sept 15, 2005	slidesA2	27	Yes	Assignment 2: "Simple" grid service Java programming assignment. Globus 4.0 environment.
5	Sept. 20, 2005	slides4d	35	Yes	Notes on Assignment 2a: StickyNote Tutorial, GT4 index services, notifications.
5/6	Sept 22, 2005	slides5a	80	Yes	Security, secure connection, authentication and authorization, password authentication, data confidentiality symmetric and asymmetric (public/private) key cyptography, RSA algorithm, non-repudiation, double encryption, digital signatures, certificates, certificate authorities, X509 certificate, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), security protocols, SSI algorithm.
6	Sept 27/29, 2005	slides5b	66	Yes	Grid Computing Security, Globus Security Infrastructure (GSI), authentication, certificates, certificate authorities, Certificate Authority for grid computing, simple CA, multiple CAs, getting a certificate, mutual authentication, authorization, gridmap file, Community Authorization Service (CAS), delegation, proxy certificates, chain of trust, MyProxy, summary of GSI components
7	Oct 4, 2005	slides6a	57	Yes	Globus: - Job submission, Resource management, Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM), GT 2, GT3, GT4 commands, Resource Specification Language (RSL and RSL-2), input/output, syntax and examples.
7	Oct 6, 2005	slidesA3	32	Yes	Assignment 3: Submitting a GT 4 Job.  Also a extra part particularly for graduate students but for others for extra credit. Appears easy, but impossible or very difficult to do (Good Will Hunting).
7	Oct 6, 2005				Brief review for WebCT quiz 1
8	Oct 13, 2005	slides6d	70	Yes	Schedulers and resource brokers, Condor, types of jobs, job submission, ClassAd, DAGMan, Condor-G.
9	Oct 18, 2005	slides		Yes	Presentation by James Ruff, Western Carolina University. Sun Grid Engine and Assignment 4. Assignment 4: Submitting an SGE Job
9	Oct 20, 2005	slides11	47	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
10	Oct 25, 2005	slides (ppt)		Yes	GridNexus UNCW GUI for Workflow Management (www.gridnexus.org). Presented by Clayton Ferner
10	Oct 27, 2005	jxpl-intro		Yes	Implementation of GridNexus, JXPL. Presented by Clayton Ferner.
					Assignment 5: UNCC-W workflow assignment
11	Nov 1/3, 2005	slides12	137	Yes	Introduction to message passing programming, MPI, Grid-enabled MPI, MPI-G2 internals, mpirun command, RSL script, Parallel programming, techniques suitable for a Grid, embarrassingly parallel computations, Monte Carlo, parameter studies
					Current state-of-the-art applications, ... to be covered by expert guest speakers.
12	Nov 8, 2005	slides		Yes	Presentation by Johnny Hopkins UNC-C graduate student: "Grids And Gaming: Developing MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) on the Grid"
12	Nov 10, 2005	slides13	54	Yes	Review of applications, "assignment 6"
13	Nov 15, 2005				Guest speaker, Jeff Schmitt, genesismolecular.com
13	Nov 17, 2005				Discussion, student slides, etc.
14	Tues, Nov 22, 2005	slides		Yes	"Development and Implementation of an Inter-Institutional Multi-purpose Grid,"  Jim Jokl, University of Virginia, Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University, Mary Fran Yafchak, SURA.
15	Tues. Nov. 29, 2005	slides		Yes	"Leveraging the Grid: Application Perspective, "Lavanya Ramakrishnan, The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University
15	Thurs. Dec, 1st, 2005				Last class -- wrap-up, course evaluation.
					The following gave presentations in the Fall 2004 class:
		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
	Nov 16, 2004	slides		Yes	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	slides		Yes	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."

Course text

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

Reading/on-line materials

Class tests:

Topics for test 1: Slides up to and including slides6a, assignments 1, 2, and 3.

Topics for test 2: Slides from slides6d to slides 12 inclusive, including, schedulers Sun Grid Engine assignment, portals, workflow, GridNexus assignment 5, and MPI.

UNC-C scheduled final exam is 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Tuesday Dec 13, 2005, but the final will be a WebCT exam.

Topics: Comprehensive (40 questions, similar in format as previous WebCT tests, 120 minutes).

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

Our installation documentation (includes list of software and version numbers):

Installation Guide for Globus 4.0, Condor-G, and Sun Grid Engine by J. Ruff

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