An Overview of Computational Grids and Survey of a Few Research Projects

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An Overview of Computational Grids and Survey of a Few Research Projects

Vision for the Grid

Grid Computing

Computational Grids

Goals of Application Development Support

Programming Languages and Environments: Challenges

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Many Active Projects

Many Active Projects

NASA’s Information Power Grid

Major Functionality Goals for IPG Include:

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NASA IPG: Two Year Goals

Globus Project: Argonne National Lab & Information Sciences Inst. (Foster & Kesselman)

Globus Approach

Globus Toolkit: Core Services

Where Globus Fits: High-Performance Grid Middleware

Recent Accomplishments

Legion - A. Grimshaw, U of Virginia

Legion - A. Grimshaw, University of Virgina

Legion - Objectives

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AppLeS Overview: Fran Berman, UCSD & Rich Wolski, U Tenn.

AppLeS = Application Level Scheduler

Condor Project: Miron Livny, U of Wisconsin

Condor: Support for SMPs

Condor: Job Dependencies

Network Enabled Servers

Motivation for NetSolve

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NetSolve - MATLAB Interface

Hiding the Parallel Processing

Ninf: Features at-a-Glance

Ninf/NetSolve Motivation

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WebFlow: Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University

WebFlow and Globus

CUMULVS: Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environment for Creating Large Interactive Applications

CUMULVS Environment for Creating Large Interactive Applications

The Computational Grid

Contributors to These Ideas

For More Information ...

Author: Jack Dongarra

Email: dongarra@cs.utk.edu

Home Page: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/