11/3/2014
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<b> Reading #2 </b>
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Perguntas sobre o artigo: Physiology of the Grid
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1) What is a grid service?
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2) Why does a grid service need to be stateful and potentially transient?
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3) Discuss the following argument: "Yet the current
paradigm for delivering QoS to applications via the vertical
integration of platform-specific components and services just does not
work in today's distributed environment: the decomposition of
monolithic IT infrastructures is not consistent with the delivery
of QoS through vertical integration of services on a given platform."
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What do you understand from this sentence?
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4) Describe the main mechanisms of the Globus toolkit.
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<b> Reading #3 </b>
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Perguntas sobre o artigo: What is the Grid
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1) Given the sentence: “A computational grid is a hardware and
software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent,
pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities.”
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give a definiton to the following terms:
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<li>dependable</li>
<li>consistent</li>
<li>pervasive</li>
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2) Why are resource management systems like SGE and PBS not considered
grid systems while Condor is considered a grid system?
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3) What is an "inter-grid" protocol and how o you think this can be
achieved?