Design and implementation of an enterprise grid

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of intraGrid, an experimental grid based on the Globus Toolkit™ and deployed on the IBM intranet. The architecture and the main components of intraGrid are described. Then, the major technical challenges and their solutions are reviewed, including software packaging and distribution, the interface for administrative tasks, and the design and implementation of the three major services: information services, management services, and job submission services. The paper also describes the extensions and modifications to intraGrid that were required to create the ISD grid, a grid that is used for joint projects with customers and thus requires access by external users. The paper reviews the use of intraGrid by various teams of IBM researchers to date and outlines the plans for future applications. The work in progress to migrate the intraGrid to an OGSA-based (Open Grid Services Architecture-based) grid is also described.

Design Pattern Usage in Grid Computing

“…Behavioral Provides an operation signature as an interface and defines corresponding implementations [32] Facade Structural Presents a uniform outlook to the user in a portable manner [34]; Shields clients from directly accessing and knowing about many small classes [11] Factory Creational Uses the factory design pattern to instantiate ports [19]; Implementation of job managers [23] Model-View-Controller Structural Consequent usage of the Model-View-Controller pattern in a control system architecture [14]; Provides a higher abstraction layer for managing a large number of concurrent requests [1]; Communicating the results between different layers [31]; Implementation of a registration service [27]; Separation of control and presentation from the application logic required for invoking Grid services [28]; Table II summarizes the design patterns found in our literature review.…”

Sequential Grid Computing: Models and Computational Experiments

“…Following the common architectures of grid computing (e.g., Joseph et al 2004, Meliksetian et al 2004), we consider a centralized, software-based grid manager. The grid manager sells idle computing resources to one or more buyers who each have one or more computing jobs.…”

“…Known by various related terms such as grid computing, utility computing, and Web-based computing, the concept has received significant attention recently in the academic and practitioner literature (Bhargava and Sundaresan 2004, Kumar et al 2009, Meliksetian et al 2004, Shalf and Bethel 2003, Stockinger 2006. The last few years have also witnessed the growth of computationally demanding applications, particularly in the scientific (Korpela et al 2001), biological (Deonier et al 2005, Ellisman et al 2004, and business (Krass 2003) fields, that are impractical to perform on a single resource.…”

“…By enabling multiple machines to work on the application in parallel, the total time taken for completion can be reduced significantly. The topics addressed in the literature on parallel grid computing include grid architectures (Meliksetian et al 2004), distributed data management (Venugopal et al 2006), distributed processing for biological and visualization applications (Hansen and Johnson 2003), reliability of grid architectures (Levitin et al 2006), task scheduling in a grid environment (Kaya andAykanat 2006, Rosenberg 2004), and market design for grid computing (Bapna et al 2006(Bapna et al , 2008.…”

Qualities of Grid Computing that can last for Ages

“…The Grid community often refers to the notion of a "virtual organization" (VO). A virtual organization exists as a corporate, not-for-profit, educational or otherwise productive entity that does not have a central geographical location and exists solely through telecommunication tools (Meliksetian, et al, 2004). In the context of this paper, the notion of a VO corresponds to the set of resources that are pooled and the set of users who can harness these pooled resources.…”