Grid Computing Project Presentation

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Grid Computing Project Presentation

• Instructor Dr. Barbara Chapman
• Presentation by Team 1
• Team Members Farhan, Gunaranjan, Ketan, Mohit,
  Rajat, Sibin, Sriram.

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Presentation Overview

• Introduction
• Installing Globus
• Installing Boinc
• Results

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Introduction

• Project Goals
• setup a working computational grid using GT3.2
• configure accounts, security and access.
• test and debug for interoperability.
• Why Globus?
• allows incremental development of Grid-enabled
  tools and application.
• available under liberal open source license.
• well documented.

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Installation Overview

• Installation Prerequisites
• Java SDK
• Ant
• Junit
• GCC
• YACC
• GNU tar
• Optional
• Tomcat
• JDBC compliant database (PostgreSQL)

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Installing and Configuring GT3.2 services

• Acquiring GT 3.2 from www.globus.org.
• Required Configuration
• Setting up a simple Certification Authority.
• Finalizing GSI.
• Optional Configuration
• WS GRAM
• GridFTP
• RFT
• RLS
• CAS

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The GT3.2 Experience

• Pains
• Lot of documentation made available by Globus
  developers but some inaccuracies.
• Insufficient information.
• For example, no information on file permissions.
• Both LSF and PBS are not free.
• SGE works only on Solaris.
• Gains
• Successfully installed and configured GT 3.2.
• Gained valuable insight on Linux.
• Gained precious experience of working in a team
  with time bound objectives.

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Globus Results I
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Globus Results II

• Service Data Browser Known Visualizers Tab View

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Globus Results III

• Service Data Browser Tree Service Data Tab View

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Globus Results IV

• OGSA Service Browser Service Data View

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Globus Results V

• OGSA Service Browser WSDL View

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Globus Results VI

• OGSA Service Browser Service Data View

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• BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
  Networking Computing
• Developed at the Space Science Laboratory
  University of California Berkeley

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Boinc background

• So what is Boinc?
• Who uses Boinc anyway?

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BOINC in a nutshell
Server components
Client components
BOINC DB
Web interface
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Client Application
Core Client
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Scheduling Server
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Work generator
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Data Server
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Project Backend
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Our progress

• Prerequisite setup
• Boinc installation
• Project setup
• Addition of application ?
• Test ?

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Boinc Results I

• Project Website View

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Boinc Results II

• Account Creation View

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Boinc results III
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Boinc Results IV
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Boinc Results V
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References

• References
• www.globus.org
• boinc.berkeley.edu
• www.gridblog.com