CS595 Grid and Ubiquitous Computing (3 cr. sect. 1) -- Spring 2002

Last modified March 23, 2002

Lecture

1:50 pm - 3:05 pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 111 Stuart Building, MC

Prerequest

CS546 (Parallel and Distributed Processing) or equivalent

Contents

• General information
• Course description
• Course materials
• Lecture scripts
• Evaluation

All information provide here in are tentative and subject to minor change

Instructors

Professor Xian-He Sun, email: sun@cs.iit.edu

Dr. Gregor von Laszewski , email: gregor@mcs.anl.gov

(Dr. Laszewski is a special guest lecturer from Argonne National Laboratory)

Office Hours

3:10 to 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday or by appointment

229C Stuart Building

Course Description

• Grid computing is a new trend in computing allowing to use a diverse set of distributed services that access a variety of disperse resources as part of complex scientific problem-solving processes.  The term Grid was chosen in analogy to the electric power grid that allows pervasive access to power. In a similar fashion Grids will enable access, selection, and aggregation of a variety of pervasive resources and services to create a collaboratively used computing infrastructure . This includes, for example, the use of compute resources (such as supercomputers), access to information resources (such as large scale data bases), or access to knowledge resources (such as collaboration between colleagues).
   
• This course covers general issues of grid computing and communication, which include system programming, performance evaluation, and the application of computation and data grids. This class will not follow any particular text book. Instead, we will discuss current Grid developments and research issues. The newly purchased 64-node SUN Compute Farm and large access grid node will be used in this class. Class presentation and term project are required.

Topics include:

• Computational and Data Access Grids
• Architecture Infrastructure
• System Development and Service
• Applications and Algorithm Design
• Programming Evironments and Tools
• Performance Evaluation and Optimization
• Other Current Issues of Grid




Course Materials

References

Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999 (see here for additional resources related to the text.)

Current Papers

Helpful References

Steve Graham, Simeon Simeonov, Toufic Boubez, Glen Daniels, Doug Davis, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
ISBN: 0672321815, 2001
On-Line Resources
Grid Computing Web site
Globus Project Web site
Parallel Processing Web site



Lecture Web site





Evaluation

• 60% -- Homework and Programming Assignment, class participation
• 40% -- Term Project