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“The grid virtualizes heterogeneous geographically disperse resources” "Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus," IBM Redbooks

Using geographically distributed and interconnected computers together for computing and for resource sharing.

Grid Computing

Barry WilkinsonDepartment of Computer ScienceUNC-Charlotte

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Grid Computing Activities• Participant in Supercomputing 2003 demo

organized by the University of Melbourne (Raj Buyya). 21 countries, numerous sites.

Some recent projects:• Grid Computing Course (2004-2007)

• VisualGrid Project (2006-2007)PI: Prof. W. Ribarsky

• NSF proposal to extend grid computing course development

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Grid Computing Course participants

14 North Carolina institutions (2004 and/or 2005): Appalachian State University Elon University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University University of North Carolina at Asheville University of North Carolina Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Pembroke University of North Carolina at Wilmington Western Carolina University Winston-Salem State University Lenoir Rhyne College, Wake Technical Community College.

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VisualGridPI: Prof. W. Ribarsky

Development System(Four 3.4 Ghz dual Xeons)

visualgrid.uncc.eduVisualization

lab data server (4 Tbytes)

Compute resources52-node (104 processor)

University Research Cluster

Software: Globus 4.0, Condor.

CA

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Certificate Authority

UNC-Charlotte resources

UNC-Asheville resources

transylvania.tr.cs.unca.edu(9-node system)

VisualGrid portal

Goal: Collaborative environmental visualization research using a grid computing infrastructureUNC-Charlotte UNC-Asheville, and EPA (funding agency)

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte University of Arkansas, Fayetteville George Mason University Louisiana State University Southeastern Universities Research Association University of North Carolina Wilmington Lewis and Clark College, Oregon Southern University at Baton Rouge Howard University, Washington DC

NSF proposal - Collaborative Research: A Collaborative Geographically Distributed Approach to Teaching Grid Computing

If funded, will have an opening for a graduate assistant.