Grid and Cloud Computing 

Semester 2012B

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Schedule:


Meeting Dates Topic Lecture material Reading and other material
8/3/12No Class - Purim
1 15/3/12 Course outline,course material,  course contents, assessment, instructor details.


Overview
Parallel Processing, HPC & HTC, Grid Computing breif overviews
Administration

Lecture 1

Parallel Computing 101

Reading:
The Anatomy of the Grid by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman and Steven Tuecke

What is the Grid by Ian Foster

The Physiology of the Grid  by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick and Steven Tuecke1
2 22/3/12 Conrinue inroductory presentation from lecture 1.

A breif Introduction to Linux

Introduction to Grid Computing




Administration

Introduction to Linux

Introduction to Grid Computing
Part A




Quick Linux Tutorial by Jiri Vogel

UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

ABW= Barry Wilkinson's book.

ABW Chapter 2

YouTube video
Globus Toolkit 4.0.2 Deployment on Ubuntu 9.04
Part 1, Part 2
Globus

329/3/12Globus
The Globus Toolkit

Grid Security
Administration

Part B

Globus Toolkit: brief introduction

Job Management

Introduction To Globus 5,
The presentation is from:
GridKa School 2011

Assignment 2 Preliminaries

Review



ABW Appendix C: XML
ABW Chapters 4,5
5/4/12No Class - Passover
12/4/12No Class - Passover
4 19/4/12 Grid Security

Schedulers


Grid Security - General Principles

Public Key Infrastructure

Grid Security

Schedulers


Partial material from ABW chapters 3, 4 and 5


Reading:
Condor and the Grid by Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny

Distributed Computing in Practice: The Condor Experience by Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny

Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids by James Frey, Todd Tannenbaum, Miron Livny Ian Foster, Steven Tuecke
26/4/12No Class - Independence Day
5 3/5/12
Condor - High Throughput Computing (HTC) and Condor lab (practice)

Home assignment #1
Computer Lab, room 217!

Condor User Tutorial - a presentations from
Condor Week 2010 

Hands-on Condor user tutorial
Condor
 Condor Manual
6 10/5/12
Introduction to Cloud Computing

Guest Lecture. Mr. Avner Algom, IGT CEO
נוכחות חובה

Condor and Workflows
Grid Appliance






Administration

Avner's slidesnew

Introduction to Cloud Computing (some slides are in Hebrew)




Reading:
Workflow Management in Condor by Peter Couvares, Tevfik Kosar, Alain Roy, Jeff Weber and Kent Wenge

Pegasus: Mapping Scientific Workflows onto the Grid by Ewa Deelman, James Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Sonal Patil, Mei-Hui Su1, Karan Vahi and Miron Livny

IGT
717/5/12midterm examnew18:15-20:45
8
24/5/12
admin08

Pegasus slides  (demo)

ProActive  slides (demo)

***Topics for the final projects

יום הסטודנט. השיעור מתקיים בכל זאת.
Discussion about the Final Project

Pegasus
Pegasus WMS Tutorial

Pegasus Tutorial Using Self-contained Virtual Machine

Pegasus user guide
Proactive

PegasusProActive

931/5/12AWS
Getting Started with AWS and Python

Boto

UNICORE

Map Reduce  and Hadoop
Demo using Cloudera VM image
Home assignment #2
Administration

UNICORE:

UNICORE - A European Grid Technology

UNICORE6 Tutorial

Introduction to UNICORE

More presentations

 Hadoop 
Introduction
MapReduce concepts
The Pig data processing language
Hand-outs
the presentations are from:
GridKa school 2011
UNICORE


AWS


Hadoop

10 7/6/12 *** By this date each team should have a topic for the final project.
Globus Provision (demo)
OpenStack StackOps  StackIQ (demos)
Cloud Foundry
RackSpace OpenStack (demo)
Elastic-R (demo)
PiCloud (demo)


Introduction ot Cloud computing infrastructure

Lecture slides:
Admin10
Globus Provision
Cloud Foundry 1  2
StackIQ
StackOps
 Rackspace CloudGlobus ProvisionOpenStackStackOpsStackIQcloud foundry
PiCloud
11 14/6/12  Cloud Computing Lab AWS tutorial

M14 · High Performance Cloud Computing

Running Workflows on Amazon EC2 using Pegasus
 
12 21/6/12   Students' presentations    15 minuts per group
*Extra material:
XtreemOS (demo)
Gridgain (demo)
CloudNumbers (demo)
 Gridgain BookGridgain
ExtreemOS
* 22/6/12  End of Spring semester      
* 4/7/12
Last day for Submission of Final Projects      
* Tentative! Subject to changes!!!
Last update: 22/3/2012