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184.265 VU Grid Computing 2008S

News

• 13.05.2008: Exam on 04.12.2008.
• 13.05.2008: Oral exam on 27.05.2008.
• 05.05.2008: The second assignment is online. You may download it here.
• 01.04.2008: The first slides are online. Check out this site.
• 31.03.2008: The first assignment is online. You may download it here.
• 26.03.2008: Revised version of the webpage goes online. General lecture information has been finalized.
• 01.03.2008: The first version of the webpage goes online.

Assignment to Master's Curricula

The lecture is usable for:

• Software Engineering und Internet Computing (Block Distributed Systems and Internet Computing) ECTS 3.0
• Information & Knowledge Management (Block Software Engineering)
• Medizinische Informatik (Block Informationsverarbeitung)

Please note, that TUWIS entry containts only Software Engineering und Internet Computing. However, we have the acknowledgment from the Dean that Grid Computing VU is usable for Information & Knowledge Management and Medizinische Informatik too.

Summary of the Lecture

In this lecture with practical part (VU -- Vorlesung mit integrierter Übung) students will get an overview over relevant concepts, technologies and standards from the area of Grid Computing (GC). Furthermore, the lecture will contain the basic knowledge necessary to apply GC in in practice (for instance in medical research). The lecture will be held in either german or english language (depending on the liking of the audience). All written material such as assignments, tests, slides or further reading will be provided in english language.

In the theoretical part the conceptual foundations of Grid Computing, GC Toolkits, GC Middleware, and Grid Workflow Systems will be covered:

• Overview about High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid Computing, Global Distributed Computing and Voluntary Computing
• Grid Architectures
• Grid Resource Management
• Web and Grid Services (OGSA, WSRF)
• Resource Provisioning in Grid
• Grid Workflows

The practical part will have the students write and deploy distributed and parallel grid applications and grid services. The practical part will consist of 2 assignments, and students will work in teams of 3.

For the course a registration in TUWIS++ as well as in the DSG Teaching Tool is necessary. For any questions on the lecture please contact us at the GC mailing list.

Necessary Prior Knowledge

Students enrolling to this course should have the following prior knowledge:

• A solid background in procedural and object-oriented programming.
• Already taken the introductory course of the Distributed Systems Group (Distributed Systems).
• Basic knowledge of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (as taught for in instance in the course Internet-Applikationen).

None of these are hard requirements, but during the course it will be assumed that students have reasonable programming skills and know their way around in the distributed system area.

Lecturer

• Ivona Brandic
• Philipp Leitner