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Grid Computing By William Maples What is Grid Computing? Geographically diverse Heterogeneous hardware and software Large-scale resource sharing Uniform, abstract access Why is it called a Grid? Because of the Power

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Grid Computing

By William Maples

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What is Grid Computing?

Geographically diverse
Heterogeneous hardware and software
Large-scale resource sharing
Uniform, abstract access

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Why is it called a “Grid”?

Because of the “Power Grid Metaphor” Describes a hope for the future Sounds better than “Super-DUPER-Computing

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Why is this necessary?

Research is outpacing computing power
To connect more scientists with the

computing power they need

Eventually corporations and maybe

indivduals

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Ok, ok, let’s see some Grids already!

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TerraGrid – National Science Foundation

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TerraGrid Information

14 Petabytes Storage
40 Teraflops of computation
27-40 Gb/S Network
Across 9 different sites, with more to be

added

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CICT at NASA

(Computing, Information and Communications Technology)

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Asian Pacific Grid Project

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Major Hurdles for Grids

Accurate Grid-wide Information
Accessing resources in a uniform fashion
Moving and accessing data across the grid
Security that is not tied to individual sites
Grid-aware scheduling

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The answer for now? Middleware

Cactus
CORBA
Enterprise JavaBeans

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Tomorrow’s Answer?

Grid-aware applications
global Grid compilation system

– able to compile and optimize a Grid-aware application to a target Grid configuration

NSF - Grid Application Development

Software (GrADS)

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And after that?

Who knows?
Grid-enabled VoIP
Super-sized file-swapping?

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