CS773 Grid and Cloud Computing

Year 2015

by Rajeev Wankar

Brief Description

Objective: This course is proposed for M.Tech. and MCA students. By the end of the semester, students should be able to develop the following skills:
(i) Should be able to write and deploy Web Services using Java or other technologies.
(ii) Should be able to write and deploy Grid and Cloud Services.
(iii) Given a practical application, identify the issues and apply suitable techniques studied in the course to it effectively.
More specific objectives will also be given later for each lecture.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Distributed Computing, Networks, Java/C/C++/Python/C# and Unix/Linux/Windows.

Preferred Books/Material

Books (Grid)

Lecture Notes

• Basics of Web Services:
  Extensible Mark-up Language XML Introduction, some key aspects of XML, Document-centric XML Data-centric XML, XML-based Web Services, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) discovery that form a basis for Web Services, exploring JAXR, jUDDI, UDDI4J etc. Technologies include HTML, HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL, Development of Java Web Services.
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf] [Part-IV pdf] [Part-V pdf] [Part-VI pdf] [Part-VII pdf] [Part-VIII pdf]
• Grid Services:
  Introduction to Grid Computing, Overview of Grid Middleware Distributed Object Technology for Grid Computing (OGSA, WSRF) Grid Middleware, GSI. Developing Grid Services.
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf] [Part-IV pdf] [Part-V pdf]
• Virtualization and Resource Provisioning
  Introduction to Cloud Technologies, Study of Hypervisors Virtualization Technology: Virtual machine technology, virtualization applications in enterprises, Pitfalls of virtualization Multitenant software: Multi-entity support, Multi-schema approach, Multi-tenancy using cloud data stores, Data access control for enterprise applications
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf] [Part-IV pdf] [Part-V pdf]
• Cloud Computing:
  Introduction to Cloud Computing Definition, Characteristics, Components, Cloud provider, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS and Others, Organizational scenarios of clouds, Administering & Monitoring cloud services, benefits and limitations, Deploy application over cloud, Comparison among SAAS, PAAS, IAAS Cloud computing platforms: Infrastructure as service: Amazon EC2,Platform as Service: Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, IBM Bluemix, Utility Computing, Elastic Computing
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf]
• Data Management in Clouds:
  Data in the cloud: Relational databases, Cloud file systems: GFS and HDFS, BigTable, HBase and Dynamo. Map-Reduce and extensions: Parallel computing, Introduction to cloud development, Example/Application of MapReduce, Features and comparisons among GFS, HDFS etc, Map-Reduce model
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf] [Part-IV pdf] [Part-V pdf]
• Security in Clouds:
  Cloud security fundamentals, Vulnerability assessment tool for cloud, Privacy and Security in cloud computing security architecture: Architectural Considerations- General Issues, Trusted Cloud computing, Secure Execution Environments and Communications, Micro-architectures; Identity Management and Access control-Identity management, Access control, Autonomic Security Cloud computing security challenges: Virtualization security management- virtual threats, VM Security Recommendations, VM-Specific Security techniques, Secure Execution Environments and Communications in cloud.
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf] [Part-IV pdf] [Part-V pdf]
• Progamming Enterprise Clouds:
  Introduction, Aneka Architecture, Aneka Deployment, Parallel Progamming Models: Threads, Tasks & MapReduce
  • [Part-I pdf] [Part-II pdf] [Part-III pdf]

Applications

Image Processing functions, some computationally Hard problems, Mandelbrot set, etc.

Assignments

Students will be given assignments based on the course contents. They are expected to write and deploy web services, web services on multiple machines in LAN or on Grid. They are also expected to write and execute programs using on Globus & Aneke.

Software Downloads for Web Computing (follow any link):

JDK j2sdk-1_4_1_07-windows-i586

Apache Axix 1.3 (SOAP Engine)

Xerces-J-bin.2.5.0 (XML Parser)

xml-security-bin-1_0_4

javamail-1_3_3_01

Tomcat Server 4.1

Collection of .jar files

Documentation for Web Computing

Create java web service in Eclipse using Axis2

A Note on .jws web services

Setting web services

Web sites (Not Exhaustive)

http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp

http://gdp.globus.org/gt4-tutorial/multiplehtml

http://www3.niu.edu/mpi/

http://www.pankaj-k.net/axis4tag/

http://www.ammai.com/webservices

http://www.manjrasoft.com/manjrasoft_downloads.html

Assessments: Internal: 40 Marks