1. Development of a Grid Computing Course for Fall Barry Wilkinson and Mark A. Holliday Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Western Carolina University July 27th, 2004
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2. What we have achieved so far.
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3. Students
Two outstanding undergraduate students have been employed at WCU since June 1st, 2004, Jeffrey House (full-time) and Sam Daoud (half-time).
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4. Student duties Their tasks:
Load system software and GT3.2 onto three laboratory computers (not an easy task) - Done
Produce documentation - Done for GT 3.2
Develop assignments jointly with the faculty
Do directed research on various aspects of grid computing. (Some of this work has not yet shown up in deliverables, for example a difficult web services assignment that we have not yet adopted.)
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5. Faculty
Principal faculty supported by the UNC-OP ASU grant are Barry Wilkinson and Mark Holliday. Jointly, they have:
Created a detailed home page for the course
Produced over 407 lecture slides
Fully tested and produced detailed hand-outs for first three assignments and also produced slides for these assignments
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6. Course Outline
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7. Course credit
Listed as an undergraduate course but could be taken for graduate credit with our approval (and your institution).
Graduate students can expect more demanding work.
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8. Prerequisites Preferably programming skills in Java on a Linux system.
Some later work may also involve C/C++ programming.
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9. Topics Review of Internet technologies Introduction to grid computing
Web services
Grid services
Security, Public Key Infrastructure
Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
Globus 3.2
Condor-G
MPI and grid-enabled MPI
UNC-W GUI and grid computing applications
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10. Assessment 5 “simple” programming tasks Programming Project
web services
grid services
Globus job
Condor job
MPI-G2 job
Programming Project
Class tests (1 or 2)
Final test
Small print: Subject to change. The instructor reserves the right to change the assignments to make it easier or harder.
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11. Weeks 1 - 3
Grid computing Virtual organizations, computational grid projects, grid computing networks, TeraGrid, grid projects in the US and around the world, grid challenges
Internet Technologies IP addresses, HTTP, URL, HTTP, XML, Telnet, FTP, SSL
Web Services I. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service registry, XML documents, XML schema, namespaces, SOAP, XML/SOAP examples, Axis
Web Services II. WSDL, portType, message definition, WSDL to/from code
Assignment 1 "Simple" Web service Java programming assignment. Tomcat environment, axis, JWS facility
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12. Weeks 3 - 4
Grid Service Concepts, differences to Web services, stateful/stateless/transient/non-transient, Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), OGSI, grid service factory, Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
Assignment 2 "Simple" grid service Java programming assignment. Globus 3.2 environment.Tools: ant
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13. Weeks 4 - 6
Security Secure connection, authorization requirements, symmetric and asymmetric (public/private) key cyptography, non-repudiation, digital signatures, certificates, certificate authorities, X509 certificate
Globus: Part 1 Basic structure (version 3.2), grid service container, service browser, Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM), job submission with managed-job-globusrun, Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), Globus certificates, simpleCA, proxies, creating a proxy 
Globus: Part II Resource management, Master Managed Job Factory Service (MMJFS), more on managed-job-globusrun. Resource Specification Language (RSL and RSL-2), syntax and examples in RSL and RSl-2 
Assignment 3 Submitting a Job to the Grid, GT3 mangaged-job-globusrun, job specified in RSL-2 (XML file)
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14. Weeks 6 - 7
Globus: Part III Information Directory Services, LDAP, resource discovery
Schedulers and Condor, submit description file,
resource brokers DAGMan, Checkpointing, ClassAd, Condor-G, other systems
Assignment 4 Submitting a Condor-G Job
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15. Weeks 7 - 8 High performance Grand challenge problems, parallel
computing (HPF) computing, potential speed-up, types of parallel computers, shared memory multiprocessors, programming, message-passing multicomputers
Parallel Programming Techniques suitable for a Grid, embarrassingly parallel computations, Monte Carlo, parameter studies, sample "big" problems, gravitational N-body problem
Cluster Computing Basic message passing techniques, History, Beowulf clusters, system software, programming models (MPMD, SPMD), synchronous message passing, asynchronous message passing, message tags, collective routines
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16. Weeks 8 - 9
MPI Process creation, communicators, unsafe message passing, point-to-point message-passing, blocking, non-blocking, communication modes, collective communication, running an MPI program on a cluster
Grid-enabled MPI MPI-G2 internals, mpirun command, RSL script
Assignment 5 Running a simple MPI-G2 program
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17. Weeks 10 to 15 (Not yet developed)
Grid portals
UNC-W GUI
UNC-W applications Scientific, business
Guest Speakers
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18. Project
In addition to five “simple” assignments, there may be a programming project or more complex assignments.
Details yet to be decided.
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19. Course Text There is no assigned course textbook
Materials and links are provided on the home page.
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20. Course Home Page
for announcements, slides, assignments, reading materials, tests dates, etc.
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27. Current and Future work
Complete work on assignment 4 and subsequent assignments
Complete the slides for the course
Incorporate work from UNC-W into the course
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28. Acknowledgements Mountain Area Grid Innovation Collaborative (MAGIC)
This course is a team effort of:
Mountain Area Grid Innovation Collaborative
(MAGIC)
Faculty: Barry Wilkinson, Mark Holliday, David Luginbuhl
Students (Wizards): Sam Daoud, Jeffrey House, Chris Johnson
and:
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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33. Acknowledgements
Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program under grant
and by
University of North Carolina, Office of the President.
MAGIC gratefully acknowledges their support.
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