Description
Following the Desktop Grid session at EGI UF in Vilnius which had its focus more on applications, we now propose a session that focuses more on the infrastructure. How can you connect Desktop Grids into EGI infrastructures. We will show howto's for gLite, based on long time experiences.
In addition the EDGI project, the organiser of this session has also build a bridge between Arc based Grids and Desktop grids. First results and experiences will be reported here.
The proposal is to have 3 parts in the session.
- A training part, including an overview of all technologies.
- An introduction to the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF) and activities and services useful for EGI/NGI infrastructure providers, sys admins, and Grid operators. IDGF is a lively community with over 25 research organisations as participant.
- An infrastructure overview. It shows how the 150.000+ computers in EDGI connected Desktop Grids are bridged into gLite and Arc based Grids. The DEGISCO project operates a similar infrastructure (with some overlap).
Programme
9h00 - 10h15 Part 1 - Training session (three IDGF training modules)
- Introduction to desktop Grids: Ad Emmen
- Basic Grid installation, including volunteer and local DGs: Jozsef Kovacs
- Extending gLite and ARC with Desktop Grids: Zoltan Farkas
- The last part discusses the monitoring facilities of the integrated infrastructure and some use cases of experience with connecting and using these type of infrastructures: Zoltan Farkas
10h15 - 10h45 Part 2 - Desktop Grids intro and IDGF overview
- What IDGF can do for you: Introduction into Desktop Grids: Ad Emmen and Peter Kacsuk
- Applications that run on Desktop Grids: Tamas Kiss
10h45 - 11h15 Break
11h15 - 12h30 Part 3 - Infrastructure overview
- EDGI/DEGISCO infrastructures, Desktop Grids and their monitoring: Zoltan Farkas
- Bridging with gLite and Arc: Zoltan Farkas
- Access the infrastructure by a production gateway, including demo: Zoltan Farkas
- Extending DG systems with Clouds, including demo: Jozsef Kovacs
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Adding quality of service to Desktop Grids with SpeQulos: Simon Delamare
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Connecting YoYo@home: Robert Lovas
