MAP-i 2009/2010
Advanced Computing:
Theoretical classes
Classes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (29 Sep, 6, 13, 20 Oct:
António's lectures
Classes 5, 6 and 7 (27 Oct, 3 and 10
Nov): Intro to Grids, Grid Architecture
(OGSA), WS-RF, Globus and the EELA-2 project
Class 8 (17 Nov): Local Resource
Managers: NQE, SGE and Condor
Class 9 (24 Nov): 2nd EELA-2 conference (I will be away)
Class 10 (15 Dez): gLite and the EGEE project
Class 11 (5 Jan): Grid Systems and Scheduling
Class 12 (12 Jan): Grid Application Description Languages
Practical Classes
Class 3:
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More on JDL
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Job requesting data
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Links of interest
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Advice on Research and Writing
- Open Grid Forum (OGF)
- The Globus alliance
- The Gridbus Project
- Grid Computing Info Center
- Open Science Grid (OSG)
(north american middleware)
- European Grid Enabling
E-science (EGEE) (Grid European Project)
- Distributed European
Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA)
- European Grid Initiative (EGI)
- GridCafé
- Condor
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Gilda user tutorials
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Gilda and MPI
- Top 500 HPC machines in the world
- MPI main functions
Supporting articles and book
- Grid Technology
CookBook (available only at academic sites) ( my copy )
- How do I model states: let me count the
ways , by Ian Foster, Savas Parastatidis, Paul Watson and Mark
McKeown, CACM, 2009
- The Anatomy of the Grid, Enabling Scalable Virtual
Organizations , by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman and Steven Tuecke,
Intl Journal of Supercomputer Applications, 2001
- The Physiology of the Grid, Open Grid Services
Architecture for Distributed Systems Integrations , by Ian
Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick and Steven Tuecke
- Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed
Applications and Production Grids , by Shantenu Jha, Daniel
S. Katz, Manish Parashar, Omer Rana and Jon Weissman (best paper of
Grid Computing Conf, 2009)
- A Taxonomy of Scheduling in General-Purpose
Distributed Computing Systems, by Casavant and Khul,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, V. 14, N. 2, 1988 (cited by 530)
- Static Scheduling Algorithms for
Allocating Directed Task Graphs to Multiprocessors, Ahmad and Kwok,
ACM Computing Surveys, 1999 (cited by 255)
- Performance Comparison of Algorithms for Static
Scheduling of DAGs to Multiprocessors, Ahmad and Kwok
- A performance study of multiprocessor task scheduling
algorithms, by Shiyuan Jin, Guy Schiavone and Damla Turgut, J
Supercomput V. 43, pp. 77--97, 2008