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Grid and Cloud Computing Credit: 3 Course Objectives: Unit Ii

This course covers fundamental concepts of grid and cloud computing including virtualization, service models, and security issues. The five units cover: distributed systems and cluster computing; grid computing architecture and services; virtualization techniques; cloud computing properties, models, and platforms; and security issues for grids and clouds. The course aims to provide knowledge of grid and cloud concepts, demonstrate an understanding of cloud virtualization and services, describe programming environments, and address security challenges.

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Grid and Cloud Computing Credit: 3 Course Objectives: Unit Ii

This course covers fundamental concepts of grid and cloud computing including virtualization, service models, and security issues. The five units cover: distributed systems and cluster computing; grid computing architecture and services; virtualization techniques; cloud computing properties, models, and platforms; and security issues for grids and clouds. The course aims to provide knowledge of grid and cloud concepts, demonstrate an understanding of cloud virtualization and services, describe programming environments, and address security challenges.

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GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING Credit: 3

Course Objectives
 To provide comprehensive knowledge of fundamental concepts and of grid and cloud computing
 To demonstrate an understanding of Virtualization, Service models and deployment models of the cloud
 To describe the programming and software environments of grid and cloud
 To shed light on the security issues in the grid and the cloud

UNIT I
Overview of Distributed Computing, Cluster Computing - Technologies for Network based systems – Software
environments for Distributed Systems- Overview of Services and Service oriented Architecture.

UNIT II
Fundamentals of Grid Computing – Open Grid Services Architecture - Motivation – Functionality Requirements –
Practical & Detailed view of OGSA/OGSI – Data intensive grid service models – OGSA services.

UNIT-III
Virtual Machines and Virtualization – Implementation levels of Virtualization – Virtualization structures/tools and
Mechanisms – Virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O Devices – Storage Virtualization.
UNIT IV

Cloud Computing – Properties – challenges – Service models – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Deployment models – Service
Composition and orchestration – Architecture design of Compute and Storage cloud – Public Cloud Platforms – Inter
Cloud Resource Management.

UNIT V

Grid Security Issues - The Grid Security Infrastructure - Authorization modes in GSI - Possible Vulnerabilities. Cloud
security issues - Infrastructure security – Data security – Identity and access management Privacy- Audit and
Compliance.

Course Outcomes

 Ability to articulate the Virtualization concepts


 Ability to identify the architecture, service models and deployment models of Cloud
 Ability to master the programming aspects of the Grid and Cloud
 Ability to understand and build secure and reliable Grid and Cloud applications

Textbooks

1. Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C. Fox and Jack J. Dongarra, “Distributed and Cloud Computing from Parallel Processing to
the Internet of Things”, Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier, 2012
2. Frédéric Magoulès, “Fundamentals of Grid Computing Theory, Algorithms and Technologies”, CRC Press, 2010
3. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, “The Grid - Core Technologies”, John Wiley & Sons; 2005.

References:

1. Foster, Ian, and Carl Kesselman, (eds.) The Grid 2: Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure. Elsevier,
2003.
2. Erl, Thomas, Ricardo Puttini, and Zaigham Mahmood. Cloud computing: concepts, technology & architecture.
Pearson Education, 2013.
3. Hurwitz, Judith S., Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, and Fern Halper. Cloud computing for dummies. John Wiley
& Sons, 2010.

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