Grid Computing 7700 Fall 2005 Course Details

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Grid Computing 7700Fall 2005Course Details

• Gabrielle Allen
• allen_at_bit.csc.lsu.edu
• http//www.cct.lsu.edu/gallen/Teaching

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Logistics

• Me Gabrielle Allen
• Office hours
• 1 to 3 Mon (Room 305 CCT)
• 1.30 to 4 Tues (Room XXX CS)
• Or by appointment anytime (http//ical.mac.com/Web
  Objects/iCal.woa/wa/default?ugaballennLSU.ics)
• I also work at the Center for Computation
  Technology at LSU http//www.cct.lsu.edu
• Contact
• gallen_at_cct.lsu.edu, allen_at_bit.csc.lsu.edu
• IM gridrebel (AIM)

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Logistics

• Class Web Page
• http//www.cct.lsu.edu/gallen/Teaching/Fall2005_7
  700_GridComputing/7700.html
• Class mail list 7700_at_cct.lsu.edu
• Class Grid (Gumbo Grid)
• http//www.cct.lsu.edu/gallen/Teaching/Fall2005_7
  700_GridComputing/Grid.html

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Logistics

• TA
• Chirag Dekate (cdekate_at_cct.lsu.edu)
• Grid Support
• Archit Kulshrestha (architk_at_cct.lsu.edu)

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Content and Grading

• Lectures and lab classes
• Reading, coursework (essays and programming),
  project
• Grading
• Active participation 10
• Coursework 50
• Project 40
• I will give percentage marks, breakdown into
  grades to appear later.

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Motivation

• As youll see ) Grid computing is a new area of
  computer science, which draws on many facets of
  other areas
• This course will give a broad overview of the
  field it is a graduate course and you are
  expected to research and understand topics
  yourself.
• There are no good textbooks! Help me improve this
  course!

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Getting Involved

• Grid Computing research group at CCT
• Research scientists Jon MacLaren, Hartmut
  Kaiser, Andrei Hutanu, Zhou Lei, Rion Dooley,
  Archit Kulshrestha
• Students Chirag Dekate, Chongjie Zhang, Santiago
  Pena, Dayong Huang
• Projects GridLab, UCOMS, SCOOP, GridChem,
  Portals
• Group meetings Thursday 9am in training room of
  CCT, everyone welcome

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My Requirements

• Think for yourself! Read objectively!
• Homework assignments
• Spelling mistakes are not acceptable
• Direct copying is not acceptable, always quote
  and reference material from somewhere else.
• Handed in work must have a cover sheet name,
  email, date, title, abstract
• Cite references properly, if you dont know how
  to do this look at a research paper.
• Send all email to me about this class with 7700
  in the subject otherwise I wont find it

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ACM Turing Lecture

• Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn
• Assessing the Internet Lessons Learned,
  Strategies for Evolution, and Future
  Possibilities ?
• ACM 2004 Turing Award recipients
• http//www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/webcas
  t.html
• Will be shown in Coates 143 at 5pm

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CCT Eminent Lecture Managing Information on the
Net the Digital Object Architecture
Dr. Kahn will discuss an architectural approach
to managing information on the net. In
particular, he will focus on applications where
the information may need to be persist over very
long periods of time and where it may be moved
many times from site to site and platform to
platform over its lifetime. An open architecture
approach to federated repositories will also be
discussed along with applications of the
technology. Robert E. Kahn is Chairman, CEO and
President of the Corporation for National
Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in
1986 after a thirteen year term at the U.S.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA). Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964
respectively. He worked on the Technical Staff at
Bell Laboratories and then became an Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He
was responsible for the system design of the
Arpanet, the first packet-switched network. In
1972 he moved to DARPA and subsequently became
Director of DARPA's Information Processing
Techniques Office (IPTO). He is a co-inventor of
the TCP/IP protocols.