University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In
partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of
Science
Satheesh Kolathur
will defend his
thesis
Application Service Provisioning Using Computational Grids
Abstract
Grid Computing enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources dynamically at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements. Ideally, users would like to run jobs available on the grid resources from anywhere and using an easy-to-use interface. Application Service Providers (ASP), on the other hand, provide applications as a service to companies at a lower cost. These applications range from complex scientific applications to generic databases, electronic mail and word processors. Grid Computing can be very important to ASPs as it may enable them to provide a guaranteed Quality of Service. In this thesis, we explore how computational grids fit in to the ASP model. We look into the design and implementation of software to support grid-enabled ASP. Our work makes use of EZ-Grid, software that was started as a client-server resource brokerage system coupled with user interfaces and robust information objects. It is built on top of the Globus toolkit. There are many issues to be considered for the ASP model like Authentication, Security, Remote file transfer, Job submission & Monitoring and Data storage. These aspects have been analyzed in detail before arriving at the final design and implementation of an ASP middleware.
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Time: 10:30 AM
Place:
550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are
invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman