NIT I CONCEPTS AND ARCHITECTURE 9 Introduction-Parallel and Distributed Computing-Cluster Computing-Grid Computing Anatomy and Physiology of Grid-Review of Web

Services-OGSA-WSRF. UNIT II GRID MONITORING 9 Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA) - An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems- Gri dI CE JAMM -MDS-Network Weather Service-R-GMA-Other Monitoring SystemsGanglia and GridMon UNIT III GRID SECURITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 9 Grid Security-A Brief Security Primer-PKI-X509 Certificates-Grid Security-Grid Scheduling and Resource Management-Scheduling Paradigms- Working principles of Scheduling -A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF-Grid Scheduling with QoS. UNIT IV DATA MANAGEMENT AND GRID PORTALS 9 Data Management-Categories and Origins of Structured Data-Data Management Challenges-Architectural Approaches-Collective Data Management Services-Federati on Services-Grid Portals-First-Generation Grid Portals-Second-Generation Grid Porta ls. UNIT V GRID MIDDLEWARE 9 List of globally available Middlewares - Case Studies-Recent version of Globus T oolkit and GLite - Architecture, Components and Features. TOTAL = 45 PERIODS TEXT BOOK: 1. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, The Grid Core Technologies, John Wiley & Sons ,2005. REFERENCES: 1. Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman,The Grid 2 Blueprint for a New Computing Infrasct ure Morgan Kaufman 2004. 2. Joshy Joseph & Craig Fellenstein, Grid Computing , Pearson Education 2004. 3. Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G.Hey, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a reality , John Wiley and sons, 2003. Module No. Topics No.of Hours 1 Course Overview 1 2 Basic concepts in Distributed Systems Notion of time Distributed Mutual exclusion, Consensus, Failure models Paradigms for process interaction in distributed programs 5 3 Cluster Computing models System-independent Parallel Programming on Distributed Systems Anonymous Remote Computing Model Integrating Task Parallelism with Data Parallelism Location Independent Inter-Task Communication Parallel Programming on CORBA Moset: An Anonymous Remote Mobile Cluster Computing Paradigm 12 4 From Cluster to Grid Computing Introduction to Grid Computing Classification of Grids

Introduction to Service Oriented Computing 2 5 Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Concepts in Grids Introduction to P2P systems Overlays Unstructured P2P systems (Gnutella, Freenet) Structured P2P systems (Distributed Hash Tables - Chord, Pastry) Integrating unstructured and structured P2P systems Introduction to P2P security - Sybil attacks 3 6 Grid Computing Middleware Functions/Challenges of a Grid computing middleware Globus: Open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applicat ions Vishwa: A reconfigurable P2P middleware for Grid computations 6 7 Data/Object Management in Large Scale Grids JuxMem: An adaptive supportive platform for data sharing on the Grid Virat: Scaling a shared object space to the Internet Arogyasree: An Internet-based Mobile Telemedicine System 4 8 Cloud Computing Introduction to Cloud computing Volunteer Clouds Intercloud/Cloud bursting 4 9 Distributed File Systems NFS, AFS Commodity hardware based file systems Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Edge Node File System (ENFS) : A scalable DFS over Internet edge nodes 4 10 Programming Models for Distributed Datasets MapReduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters Dryad 3 11 Open issues