GRID COMPUTING

SEMINAR ON GRID COMPUTING Grid Computing is a technique in which the idle systems in the Network and their wasted CPU cycles can be efficiently used by uniting pools of servers, storage systems and networks into a single large virtual system for resource sharing dynamically at runtime. - High performance computer clusters. -share application, data and computing resources. IMPORTANCE OF GRID COMPUTING Flexible, Secure, Coordinated resource sharing. Virtualization of distributed computing resources. Give worldwide access to a network of distributed resources. GRID REQUIREMENTS Security Resource Management Data Management Information Services Fault Detection Portability TYPES OF GRID Computational Grid -computing power Scavenging Grid -desktop machines Data Grid -data access across multiple organizations ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW - Grids computer can be thousands of miles apart and connected with internet networking technologies. - Grids can share processors and drive space. Fabric : Provides resources to which shared access is mediated by grid protocols. Connectivity : Provides authentication solutions. Resources : Connectivity layer, communication and authentication protocols. Collective : Coordinates multiple resources.

Application : Constructed by calling upon services defined at any layer. GRID COMPONENTS In a world-wide Grid environment, capabilities that the infrastructure needs to support include: Remote storage Publication of datasets Security Uniform access to remote resources Publication of services and access cost Composition of distributed applications Discovery of suitable datasets Discovery of suitable computational resources Mapping and Scheduling of jobs Submission, monitoring, steering of jobs execution Movement of code Enforcement of quality Metering and accounting GRID LAYERS Grid Fabric layer Core Grid middleware User-level Grid middleware Grid application and protocols OPERATIONAL FLOW FROM USERS PERSPECTIVE - Installing Core Gridmiddleware - Resource brokering and application deployment services COMPONENT INTERACTION - Distributed application - Grid resource broker - Grid information service - Grid market directory - Broker identifies the list of computational resources - Executes the job and returns results - Metering system passes the resource information to the accounting system - Accounting system reports resource share allocation to the user PROBLEM AND PROMISES PROBLEMS - Coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, institutional organizations - Improving distributed management - Improving the availability of data - Providing researchers with a uniform user friendly environment

PROMISES - Grid utilizes the idle time - Its ability to make more cost-effective use of resources - To solve problems that cant be approached without any enormous amount of computing power.