National Grid Seminar Series

Gridbus Toolkit for Grid & Utility Computing

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing & Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Australia

11 June 2003 (Wednesday)
1500 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Grid Computing is emerging as a next-generation parallel and distributed computing platform driven by the Internet, Web services technologies, and service-oriented computing architectures. Grids enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources, such as computers (PCs, workstations, clusters, supercomputers), data sources, and scientific instruments, for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. To realise the full potential of computing Grids, a number of projects, both within Australia and around the world, have been making steady progress in the design, development, and deployment of Grid technologies and applications.

The notion of utility computing, which enables the leasing of information technology (IT) services on demand, is gaining wide attention due to its cost effective computing nature. Hence, the need for technologies that unify the notion of Service-Oriented Architectures, Grid and utility computing; and empower both service providers and consumers to operate based on their individual needs is rapidly growing.

The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne has been carrying out R&D and leading the creation of number of Cluster and Grid technologies to realize service-oriented grid and utility computing. The project focused on the design and development of (A) tools that transform existing applications into master-worker style applications; (B) high-level services that enable publication of application services in a market-like environment; (C) grid economy paradigm for distributed resource and users management; and (D) resource aggregators that discover distributed data and applications services at runtime and map application tasks to resources based on their cost, capability, performance, and user's QoS demands such the deadline and budget limits.

This seminar identifies Grid synergies, challenges, and opportunities; and presents architectural framework, methodologies, and presents Gridbus technologies that are being developed to realise scalable utility and service-oriented computing. We demonstrate (live, if Internet access is available) the usage of Grid tools (mainly, Gridbus and Nimrod-G) in composition and distributed execution of data-intensive applications (e.g., molecular docking, brain activity analysis, and high-energy physics) on the World-Wide Grid test-bed. The seminar concludes by highlighting sociological and intellectual implications of this new Internet-based computing paradigm and its impact on the marketplace.

For further information on the Gridbus Project, please visit - http://www.gridbus.org/

Biodata

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is the founder and program leader of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory in the Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the creators of system software for PARAM Supercomputers developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India. He has pioneered economic paradigm for service-oriented grid computing and demonstrated its utility through his contribution to conceptualisation, design and development of Grid technologies such as Nimrod-G, GridSim, and Gridbus.

Dr. Buyya has authored three books Microprocessor x86 Programming, BPB Press, New Delhi, 1995, Mastering C++, Tata McGraw Hill Press, New Delhi, 1997, and Design of PARAS Micro-kernel. The books on emerging topics that he edited include, High Performance Cluster Computing published by Prentice Hall, USA, 1999; and High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O, IEEE and Wiley Press, USA, 2001. He has published over 70 research articles in international conferences and journals. He has lectured on advanced technologies such as Parallel, Distributed and Multi-threaded Computing, Internet and Java, Cluster Computing, Java and High Performance Computing, and Grid computing in many international conferences and institutions.

For further information, visit - http://buyya.com

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome. Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 10 June 2003.