Professor: Chi Zhang
Email: czhang AT cs dot fiu dot edu
Phone: 305-348-3751
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:00 - 17:00, or by appointment.

Announcements:

Projects:  

A Project of PBS scheduler

Topics

• Background and Motivation 
• Existing Technologies
  • RPC, XML and Web Services
  • Cluster Scheduler
• Grid and Globus Toolkits
  • Security
  • Information Services
  • Data Management
  • Job Management
• Advanced Topics on Grid
  • MPI, MPICH, and MPICH-G
  • Virtual Data System
  • Resource Management

Note: Each topic will be covered in approximately 1 week.

Links:

Cluster Installation:

• CyberBridge Cluster: http://cb.fiu.edu/ganglia/
• CyberBridge Configuration Notes
• Rock Website: http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/

XML, SOAP, and Web Services

• XML Tutorial:  PDF
• Web Service Tutorial: PDF

Grid Computing and Globus

• Grid:  PPT 
• GTK4.0 Documents http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.0/
• Condor-G: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/condorg/
• Excercise from University of Florida     Source Code

Advanced Topics

• Chimera: Virtual Data System:  http://vds.uchicago.edu/twiki/bin/view/VDSWeb/WebMain
• Pegasus: Resource Scheduling:  http://pegasus.isi.edu/   
• MPI:  PDF   Source Code
• MPICH:  HTML    Source Code
• MPICH-G2:  http://www.hpclab.niu.edu/mpi/