Grid Computing

• Introduction
• The gLite Architecture
• The Job Description Language (JDL, Basic jobs)
• Data Management in gLite
• AMGA

• gLite Grid demonstrator
• Accessing the GILDA training infrastructure and basic gLite commands
• Basic Job Management in gLite
• Advanced Job Management
• Data Management using LFC
• Data Management using AMGA

• 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
• Gilda user tutorials
• Gilda and MPI
• Top 500 HPC machines in the world
• MPI main functions

• 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
• Foster, I. T. 2001. The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. In Proceedings of the 7th international Euro-Par Conference Manchester on Parallel Processing (August 28 - 31, 2001). R. Sakellariou, J. Keane, J. R. Gurd, and L. Freeman, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 2150. Springer-Verlag, London, 1-4.
• The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration by: I. Foster, C. Kesselman, J. Nick, S. Tuecke (2002)
• Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, A Taxonomy of Data Grids for Distributed Data Sharing, Management and Processing, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 38, No. 1, Pages:1-53, ISSN 0360-0300, ACM Press, New York, USA, March 2006.
• Jia Yu and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing, Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 3, Numbers 3-4, Pages: 171-200, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., New York, USA, Sept. 2005.
• 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