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A Seminar Sysnopsis ON Grid Computing

Grid computing involves linking together distributed computing resources to work on large tasks. It allows for sharing of processing power, storage, and other IT resources between organizations on an as-needed basis. Key benefits include cost savings, faster computation through distributed processing, and flexibility to adapt to changing resource needs. Future directions may include expanding open access to grid resources and further development of grid technologies by companies like IBM.

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A Seminar Sysnopsis ON Grid Computing

Grid computing involves linking together distributed computing resources to work on large tasks. It allows for sharing of processing power, storage, and other IT resources between organizations on an as-needed basis. Key benefits include cost savings, faster computation through distributed processing, and flexibility to adapt to changing resource needs. Future directions may include expanding open access to grid resources and further development of grid technologies by companies like IBM.

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A SEMINAR SYSNOPSIS ON GRID COMPUTING

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CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.

GRID COMPUTING DEFINATION:-"A form of distributed and parallel computing, whereby a 'super and
virtual computer' is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers acting in concert to perform very large tasks."

OBJECTIVE:-The objective of grid-based computing is to virtualize, manage and allocate


distributed physical resources (processing power, memory, storage, networking) to applications and users on an as-needed (on-demand) basis--regardless of the resources' location.

MAIN GOAL:- The goal of grid computing, which gets its name from its gridlike
architecture, is to link surplus computing power and other spare IT resources with clients who have periodic needs beyond the capacity of their machines. It's a form of peer-to-peer.

WHAT IS GRID COMPUTING?


IBM defines grid computing as the ability, using a set of open standards and protocols, to gain access to applications and data, processing power, storage capacity and a vast array of other computing resources over the Internet. A grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources distributed across multiple administrative domains based on their (resources) availability, capacity, performance, cost and users' quality-of-service

requirements. Grid computing, or simply grid, is the generic term given to techniques and technologies designed to make pools of distributed computer resources available on-demand. Grid computing was originally conceived by research scientists as a way of combining computers

across a network to form a distributed supercomputer to tackle complex computations. In the commercial world, grid aims to maximize the utilization of an organization's computing resources by making them shareable across applications (sometimes called virtualization) and, potentially, provide computing on demand to third parties as a utility service.

WORKING:- Grid computing software divides a task into subtasks, finds spare processors
and other critical resources on the network, distributes the subtasks, monitors their progress and restarts any subtasks that fail. Finally, grid computing engines aggregate the results of the subtasks so the job or task can be completed. One type of grid computing arrangement is a local cluster, which typically uses one main grid server on a single very-high-speed network. The grid machine handles one major task, and a small set of users are allowed to manage that task. A broader group of users are allowed to inspect and review intermediate and final results. The next step up is the grid campus. Typically it involves many grid servers and many tasks. However, all the processing is done behind a firewall and network speeds are still fairly fast and within a known range. Yet another approach is a global grid, which opens usage to machines anywhere on the Web and/or other private networks. It requires considerable effort to discover available resources and schedule tasks on these machines because they can differ so much in response times because of Web and network latencies.

APPLICATION:- The European Community (EU) is sponsoring a project for a grid for
high-energy physics, earth observation, and biology applications. In the United States, the National Technology Grid is prototyping a computational grid for infrastructure and an access grid for people. Sun Microsystems offers Grid Engine software. Described as a distributed resource management (DRM) tool, Grid Engine allows engineers at companies like Sony and Synopsys to pool the computer cycles on up to 80 workstations at a time

MERITES AND DEMERITS:- Advantages include the capability of grid computing


programs to actually provide more power to the computers, including personal computers that are being served by them, as well as access to more data and information.Disadvantages

include limited ability to change the way in which data is displayed on screens, just to name a small one, and the much larger concern of security breaches.

CONCLUSION:- Grid Computing involves cost savings, speed of computation, and


agility. The grid adjusts to accommodate the fluctuating data volumes that are a typical in the seasonal business. Grid Computing takes advantage of the fact that most of the computers in United States use their central processing units on average only 25% of the time for the work they have been assigned.

FUTURE SCOPE:- The future of grid computing, such as EU DataGrid, is pretty much
like the future of technology itself: there is really no telling how far it can go. Technology companies in the United States, such as IBM, are already in the process of creating their own grid computing programs which operate on the same principle as EU DataGrid, only in smaller proportions. Europe continues to remain on the cusp of grid computing research and implementation. Specifically, those involved in grid computing overall, including the EU Data Grid are studying whether or not access should remain primarily proprietary or expand further into open source operations.

REFERENCE
www.gridcomputing.com www.wikipedia.com

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