Technological Challenges in Building and Managing Utility Computing Grids

CENG SEMINAR SERIESTechnological Challenges in Building and Managing Utility Computing GridsDr. Rajkumar BuyyaGrid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) LaboratoryDept. of Computer Science and Software EngineeringUniversity of Melbourne, AustraliaAbstract:Grid computing, one of the latest buzzwords in the ICT industry, is emerging as a new paradigm for Internet-based parallel and distributing computing. It leverages existing IT infrastructure to optimize compute resources and manage data and computing workloads. The developers of Grids and Grid applications need to address numerous challenges: security, heterogeneity, dynamicity, scalability, reliability, service creation and pricing, resource discovery, resource management, application decomposition and service composition, and qualify of services. To address some these challenges, the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne has developed grid middleware technologies that support rapid creation and deployment of eScience and eBusiness applications on enterprise and global Grids. In this seminar, we place emphasis on fundamental challenges of Grid economy, how to design and develop Grid technologies and applications capable of dynamically leasing services of distributed resources at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality of service requirements. We briefly present various components of the Gridbus Toolkit and then discuss, in detail, the Gridbus service broker that supports composition and deployment of applications on utility Grids. Case studies on Gridbus middleware in creation of Grid applications on international Grids will be highlighted.Biographical Sketch :Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Senior Lecturer, Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek, USA) Fellow of Grid Computing, and the Director of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has authored/co-authored over 130 publications. The books on emerging topics that he edited include, High Performance Cluster Computing published by Prentice Hall, USA, 1999; and High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O, IEEE and Wiley Press, USA, 2001. He also edited proceedings of ten international conferences and served as guest editor for major research journals. He is currently serving as Elected Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). He has organized and chaired IEEE/ACM international conferences in the area of Cluster and Grid Computing. For further information on Dr. Buyya, please browse: http://www.buyya.com.Host: Prof. Kai Hwang, x04470

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