15-03-2012, 04:28 PM
Grid Computing seminar report
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History
The ancestor of the Grid is Metacomputing. This term was coined in the early eighties by NCSA.
Director, Larry Smarr . The idea of Metacomputing was to interconnect supercomputer centers in order to achieve superior processing resources.
One of the first infrastructures in thisarea, named Information Wide Area Year, was demonstrated at Supercomputing 1995 .
This project strongly influenced the subsequent Grid computing activities. In fact one of there searchers who lead the project I-WAY was Ian Foster who along with Carl Kesselman published in 1997 a paper that clearly links the Globus Toolkit which is currently the heart of many Grid projects, to Metacomputing.
The Foster-Kesselman duo organized in 1997, at Argonne National Laboratory, a workshop entitled “Building a Computational Grid” . At this moment the term “Grid” was born. The workshop was followed in 1998 by the publication of the book “The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure” by Foster and Kesselman themselves.
Introduction
Grid computing is form of networking unlike conventional network that focus on communication among devices.
It harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand alone machine.
Grid computing is a method of harnessing the power of many computers in network to solve problems requiring a large numbers of processing cycles and involving huge amount of data.
BASIC CONCEPTS OF HOW IT WORKS?
The computer is tied to network such as internet, which enables regular people with home pcs to participate in the grid project from anywhere in the world.
The pc owners have to download a simple software from the grid computing provider. And the project sites use the software that can divide and distribute the pieces of program to thousands of computers for processing.
This system on desktop of user shows a grid computing system that is distributed among the various local domains.
APPLICATION OF GRID COMPUTING
The grid computing is used to solve the problems which are beyond the scope of single processor, the problems involving the large amount of computations or the analysis of huge amount of data.
Right now there are scientific and technical projects such as CANCER,AIDS and other medical research projects that involves the analysis of the inordinate amount of data.
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History
The ancestor of the Grid is Metacomputing. This term was coined in the early eighties by NCSA.
Director, Larry Smarr . The idea of Metacomputing was to interconnect supercomputer centers in order to achieve superior processing resources.
One of the first infrastructures in thisarea, named Information Wide Area Year, was demonstrated at Supercomputing 1995 .
This project strongly influenced the subsequent Grid computing activities. In fact one of there searchers who lead the project I-WAY was Ian Foster who along with Carl Kesselman published in 1997 a paper that clearly links the Globus Toolkit which is currently the heart of many Grid projects, to Metacomputing.
The Foster-Kesselman duo organized in 1997, at Argonne National Laboratory, a workshop entitled “Building a Computational Grid” . At this moment the term “Grid” was born. The workshop was followed in 1998 by the publication of the book “The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure” by Foster and Kesselman themselves.
Introduction
Grid computing is form of networking unlike conventional network that focus on communication among devices.
It harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand alone machine.
Grid computing is a method of harnessing the power of many computers in network to solve problems requiring a large numbers of processing cycles and involving huge amount of data.
BASIC CONCEPTS OF HOW IT WORKS?
The computer is tied to network such as internet, which enables regular people with home pcs to participate in the grid project from anywhere in the world.
The pc owners have to download a simple software from the grid computing provider. And the project sites use the software that can divide and distribute the pieces of program to thousands of computers for processing.
This system on desktop of user shows a grid computing system that is distributed among the various local domains.
APPLICATION OF GRID COMPUTING
The grid computing is used to solve the problems which are beyond the scope of single processor, the problems involving the large amount of computations or the analysis of huge amount of data.
Right now there are scientific and technical projects such as CANCER,AIDS and other medical research projects that involves the analysis of the inordinate amount of data.
