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Title: Grid Computing: Resource Management Thesis Problem Statement


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  • Grid Computing Resource ManagementThesis
    Problem Statement
  • Francisco CastellanosGraduate Student, Computer
    EngineeringFairfield University

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Contents
  • Introduction
  • Problem Statement
  • Approach
  • Motivation
  • Work In Progress
  • References

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Introduction
  • What is Grid Computing?
  • Grid computing is a kind of parallel computing
    that enables the sharing, selection, and
    aggregation of geographically distributed
    autonomous resources, at runtime.1
  • One of the services that a Grid can provide is a
    computational service.1

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Problem Statement
  • We propose to address a sub-problem in the area
    of Computational Grids concerned with resource
    management.
  • As compute servers become available (idle), they
    run a screen saver.
  • The screen saver informs a central Look-Up
    Server (LUS) and volunteers the server to the
    GRID.
  • The server then downloads a job, performs some
    computation, and returns the results back to the
    LUS.

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Problem Statement
  • Goals
  • Make use of the CS (Compute Server) during its
    idle state.
  • Minimize the intrusion into the CS desktop.
  • Execute a trusted job and to return the result
    from the CS to the LUS using a secure channel.
  • Creation of a portable screen saver that can be
    downloaded on demand.

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Approach
  • Problem Partitions
  • Detection of CS Idle-state initiation and
    termination.
  • Screensaver deployment.
  • Computation task deployment.
  • Communication between CS and LUS (Benchmark data
    and job status)
  • Leasing

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Approach
  • Proposal
  • Use and customization of Saverbeans SDK.
    SaverBeans Screensaver SDK is a Java screensaver
    development kit, enabling developers to create
    cross-platform screensavers.
  • Use of Java Web Start for Screensaver deployment
    and Compute Server deployment.
  • Create a communication protocol between CS and
    LUS. Information includes benchmark data, load,
    and processing state.
  • Implement leasing process.

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Motivation
  • Work stations are idle 14 hours or more per work
    day.
  • Waste of CPU cycles, Storage Capacity and network
    bandwidth.
  • Success of the SETI project. A major deficiency
    of SETI is that it is not portable and generally
    only available to accelerate a single
    application.
  • Grid promises to make it possible for scientific
    collaborations to share resources on an
    unprecedented scale, and for geographically
    distributed groups to work together in ways that
    were previously impossible.2

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Work in progress
  • Screensaver for Linux and Windows.

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Work in progress
  • Screensaver deployment process for Linux and
    Windows with Java Web Start.

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Work in progress
  • Integration of Screensaver and Compute server for
    Linux.

Compute Server
Xscreensaver-demo
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Work in progress
  • Job partitioning Mandelbrot set.

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References
  • 1 Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya and Domenico
    Laforenza Grids and Grid technologies for
    wide-area distributed computing,
    http//www.gridbus.org/papers/gridtech.pdf,
    SOFWARE-PRACTICE AND EXPERTICE, 2002, John Wiley
    and Sons,Ltd.
  • 2 Ian Foster The Grid A new Infrastructure
    for 21st Century Science, American Institute of
    Physics, 2002, http//www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-2/
    p242.html

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