CIS-6612: Autonomic Grid Computing

Instructor Information

· Instructor: S. Masoud Sadjadi

· Office: ECS 212 C

· Office Hours: M/W 15:30 – 18:00 or by appointment

· Phone: (305)348-1835

· Email: sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu

· URL: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi

Class Information

· Location: ECS 235

· Lecture Times: M/W 1825-1740

· Syllabus

· Tentative Schedule

· Reading List

· LA Grid/GT4-Book Web Site

Course Information

· Catalog Description: This course introduces Autonomic Computing, Grid Computing, and their relationship with each other by reviewing research papers in the literature.

· Course Description:

This course is mainly a reading course where you get the opportunity to read, review, and discuss many of the best papers in both grid and autonomic computing. By closely studying the literature on these two separately originated topics, you will understand why recently they have received so much attention. In brief, grid computing takes advantage of the unused cycles of our computers to solve large computational problems, autonomic computing attempts to use these unused cycles to automatically respond to changes in the execution environment with the least human intervention.

Although the discussions in the class will be widely open, the main theme and the focus of the discussions will be on the invention of a new programming paradigm to facilitate the transparent gridification of existing scientific applications so that the gridification process (i.e., modifying the code to become grid aware, deploying the grid-aware code to the corresponding grid infrastructure, and autonomic scheduling and resource management) is transparent to the original application code, as well as to the application developers.

To make this course more practical, we will learn to play with some of the autonomic computing tools such as those provided by Transparent Shaping and grid computing toolkits such as Globus Toolkit 4. Our school's impressive facility donated by IBM both for the LA Grid project and for the Autonomic Computing Research Laboratory will be available to the students to get some hands-on experience in these two related areas.