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2024/2025

Grid Computing

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
NI-GRI Z,ZK 5 2P+1C English
Garant předmětu:
André Sopczak
Lecturer:
André Sopczak
Tutor:
Petr Fiedler, André Sopczak
Supervisor:
Department of Computer Systems
Synopsis:

Grid computing and gain knowledge about the world-wide network and computing infrastructure.

Requirements:
Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to grid computing (grid computing concepts, grid computing motivations, grid computing networks, grid computing infrastructure).

2. Grid security (grid access, virtual organization membership management, grid certificate).

3. Grid access, identity and access management (case study of the Globus Toolkit).

4. Virtual organization membership services (Virtual Organization access control in distributed services, key cryptography, RSA algorithms).

5. Job management, resource allocation, monitoring.

6. User interface (task management system, job schedulers, broker, monitoring of tasks and jobs brokered to the grid, case study of PanDA).

7. Grid Clients (case study of PanDA Clients).

8. Metadata interface (dataset browser, REST API, Python client).

9. Data management (data management system to handle the data including the job outputs, case study of rucio).

10. Grid performance, dependability, and scalability (Grid usage in practice, challenges, performance).

11. Grid administration and operations.

12. Future trends in grid computing.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Creating a grid computing environment with the Globus toolkit.

2. Grid identity, access management, administration, security.

3. PanDA user interface and PanDA clients.

4. Case study of rucio.

5. Demonstration application 1.

6. Demonstration application 2.

Study Objective:
Study materials:

Literature

Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox: Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Wiley 2003, ISBN 978-0470853191.

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, eds.: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Elsevier 1998, ISBN 978-1558604759.

Note:
Further information:
https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/NI-GRI
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
roomT9:347
Sopczak A.
14:30–16:00
(lecture parallel1)
Dejvice
NBFIT učebna
roomT9:351
Sopczak A.
Fiedler P.

16:15–17:45
EVEN WEEK

(lecture parallel1
parallel nr.101)

Dejvice
NBFIT PC ucebna
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
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