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GRID COMPUTING:

Schedule:

  1. Lecture 1: What is grid computing. Its benefits. Grid applications
  2. Lecture 2: Architecture and standards: SOA, SOAP, OGSA, OGSI, WSDL, WSRF
  3. Lecture 3: Globus components. MDS, GRIS, GRAM, GIIS, GASS, RSL, GridFTP
  4. Lecture 4: Getting started with developments in C++
  5. Lecture 5: Programming examples using Java
  6. Lecture 6: Grid service development: specifying, coding, building, packing, deploying, testing
  7. Lecture 7: Major features of grid services: factory, service data elements, life cycle, notification
  8. Lecture 8: Designing grid applications
  9. Lecture 9: Simple application examples
  10. Lecture 10: Complex application examples
  11. Lecture 11: Developing a portal
  12. Lecture 12: Overview of grid computing products and tools
  13. Lecture 13: Special issues: grid security, data management, information and workload virtualization.
  14. Lecture 14: Grid projects in research and industry

Lecture presentation in Distributed Systems Online: Part 1 and Part 2

Related training events:
  1. First edition of Grid training days in Timisoara: projects, multi-national infrastructure, Grid services
  2. Second edition of Grid training days in Timisoara: applications, national infrastructure
  3. Third edition of Grid training days in Timisoara: applications in Earth Observation
  4. About Grid (in Romanian)
  5. Research activities related to Grids in 2007-2008

Presentations from other lectures:
  1. Introduction (several sources)
  2. The Grid's history and future (source: Domenico Laforenza, ISPDC 2006, Timisoara)
  3. Architecture and standards (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson)
  4. Globus components (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson), GRAM in GT2 (source: Introduction to Grid Computing, 2005, CS 696, San Diego State University, M.P. Thomas) and in GT4 (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson)
  5. Grid security: Security - introduction (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson), GSI - introduction (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson) and GSI - details (source: Introduction to Grid Computing, 2005, CS 696, San Diego State University, M.P. Thomas)
  6. Grid portals (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson)
  7. Grid applications and Computational Grids (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson)
  8. Designing a Web service (source: ITCS 4010 Grid Computing, 2005, UNC-Charlotte, B. Wilkinson)
  9. Grid services versus Web services (source: SCIEnce project)

Textbooks:
  1. D. Petcu, Grid Architectures and Technologies, Ed. Eubeea, Timisoara, 2006 (in Romanian).
  2. B. Sotomayor and L. Childers, Globus Toolkit 4: Programming Java Services, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.