JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• Foundation of cooperative distributed systems engineering
• Supporting technologies with a special attention to agent-oriented paradigm
• Service-oriented computing and grid computing
• The implementation component includes a term-project

UNIT - I

Introduction The different forms of computing, The strengths and weaknesses of Distributed computing, Operating system concepts relevant to distributed computing, the architecture of distributed applications. Paradigms for Distributed Applications, choosing a Paradigm for an application (trade-offs).

UNIT - II

Cluster Computing Parallel computing overview, cluster computing – Introduction, Cluster Architecture, parallel programming models and Paradigms, Applications of Clusters.

UNIT - III

Grid Computing Introduction, Grid Computing Anatomy – Architecture, Architecture and relationship to other Distributed Technologies, Grid computing road map. Merging the Grid services Architecture with the Web Services Architecture.

UNIT - IV

Open Grid Service Architecture – Introduction, Architecture and Goal, Sample Use cases: Commercial Data Center, National Fusion Collaboratory, Online Media and Entertainment. OGSA platform Components, Open Grid Services Infrastructure.

UNIT - V

Globus GT 3 Toolkit – Architecture, Programming Model, A sample implementation, High Level services, OGSI.NET Middleware Solutions.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Grid Computing, Joshy Joseph & Craig Fellenstein, Pearson education, 2004
• 2. Distributed Computing, Principles and Applications, M.L.Liu, Pearson Education, 2004
• 3. High Performance Cluster Computing, Rajkumar Buyya, Pearson education.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Grid Computing – Making the global infrastructure a reality, Fran Berman, Geoffrey C Fox, Anthony J G Hey, Wiley India, 2010.
• 2. A Networking Approach to Grid Computing, D. Minoli, Wiley & sons, 2006.
• 3. Grid Computing: A Practical Guide to Technology and Applications, A.Abbas, Firewall Media, 2008. M. Tech- I Year – II Semester (Web Technology) PART - I