DOCSLIB.ORG

Grid Computing Perspectives for IBM Atelier “Internet Et Grilles De Calcul En Afrique”

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Grid Computing Perspectives for IBM Atelier “Internet Et Grilles De Calcul En Afrique” PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Grid Computing Perspectives for IBM Atelier “Internet et Grilles de Calcul en Afrique” Jean-Pierre Prost IBM France [email protected] © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Agenda • Grid Computing Initiatives within IBM • World Community Grid • Decrypthon • Cloud Computing and Blue Cloud • Latin American Grid • What about the industry? • Convergence between Grid, Virtualization, and SOA © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier World Community Grid • IBM has established a Global Public Grid for Philanthropic Research http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ • IBM is working with the Mayo Clinic, United Nations, EPA, World Health Organization and United Devices on this worldwide effort • An advisory Board with members from leading foundations, universities and public organizations is providing oversight to the research projects • Projects in the following disciplines are being implemented: • Medical Research – Genomics, proteomics, epidemiology, > Over 80 million and biological system research such as AIDS and HIV results returned studies • Environmental Research – Ecology, climatology, pollution, > Over 73,000 years of and preservation CPU processing time • Basic Research – Human health and welfare related studies > Approximately 500k devices on the Grid © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier AfricaClimate@Home AfricaClimate@Home, an ambitious effort based in South Africa Attempt to accurately predict the impact of climate change on various regions in Africa Use the power of 750,000 devices to render the climate models © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Join the WCG Community Now ! Employees join World Community Grid at www.worldcommunitygrid.org. Benefits of Employees download a small piece of software (“agent”). Your Company’s Participation Provide employees with an easy, safe, free opportunity to The agent asks World Community make a difference on critical humanitarian issues. Grid for work. Augment employees’ community work at no additional cost. World Community Grid sends work Strengthen corporate citizenship reputation by publicizing to the agent. your company’s overall employee contribution. – Company team will be created, and employee contributions will The agent runs when the PC has earn the team points, as well as individual employee points. unused cycles. – Company listed on “Our Partners” Web page and in all When the agent finishes the materials and public computation, it sends the work back descriptions. to World Community Grid and Join forces with other receives new work. companies, associations, and Company teams and individual public and private employees can see the impact of organizations, working toward a common their contribution and earn points. goal. © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Décrypthon Research & Development Challenge: The Décrypthon program, set up to rapidly accelerate progress in researching genetic diseases and their cures, required an ambitious IT infrastructure to support its mission. Benefits: Solution: – Huge calculation resources now available for IBM, AFM, CNRS and several major French research on genetic diseases and protein universities joined the Décrypthon program to modeling provide a collaborative compute grid including : – Ability to leverage both the unutilised – Building of a nation-wide “University compute power of the universities’ IT Centers” grid leveraging existing HPC infrastructure and also individually-owned infrastructure involving IBM pSeries, and PCs connected to the grid jointly a second “end user” grid to link in the compute resource of the general public – Improved and faster results on genetic disease research meaning that 2 years worth – Implementing specific grid services that are of calculations can now be completed in just mission-critical for this type of project (such 1 year as confidentiality, single-sign-on security and multi-job workload balancing) “Working with IBM on the implementation of the grid solution for the Décrypthon program will help us optimise the use of the university compute centers and share the compute resources of thousand of end users to get faster results on genetic diseases as part of this ambitious research program” said Stéphane Roques, Secrétaire Général , AFM © 2007 IBM Corporation UniversitiesPSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier University Laboratories Computing Centers IGBMC Orsay Bordeaux Strasbourg Application Server Web Interface IBCP Lyon 16 procesors Pierre et Marie-Curie LORIA Job Nancy Submission and Results Grid Scheduling 8 processors Exploitation MAEM and Management Job Nancy Server Dispatching Lille USTL and Results Université Gathering de Paris 5 16 processors Orsay Université Data de Paris 6 Storage Complex Data Management 16 processors Université Requests Lausanne Server Web Interface . CRIHAN - Rouen . Utilisateur de la grille ENS-Lyon Storage © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Joint IBM Google Announcement • Train future workforce with next generation IBM Almaden Research computing skills • University initiative to promote open standards and emerging parallel computing model • Jointly provide compute platform of the future including hardware, software, and services to support new parallel computing curricula Google • Three active “clouds” Universities participating in initial pilot U. Of Washington © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier What is Cloud Computing? An emerging computing paradigm where data and services reside in massively scalable data centers and can be ubiquitously accessed from any connected devices over the internet Businesses, from startups to enterprises Web 2.0- 4+ billion phones by enabled PCs, 2010 [Source: Nokia] TVs, etc. © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Cloud Computing High-Level Architecture Apache Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual Machine Machine Machine Machine Tivoli Monitoring Agent Open Source Linux with Xen Data Center – System x Virtualized Infrastructure based on Open Source Linux & Xen Cloud computing Monitoring and Provisioning infrastructure to support the Management Stack academic initiative can be delivered either as hosted or onsite solution © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Blue Cloud Initial Offering – Spring 2008 Delivers a massively scalable and flexible compute platform for hosting both existing and emerging data-intensive workloads Family of ready-to-use cloud computing offerings Virtualized Infrastructure Based on Linux & Xen Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual Machine Machine Machine Machine BladeCenterBladeCenter Tivoli Monitoring Agent Linux with Xen Monitoring and Provisioning Cost efficient model for creating and acquiring information Management Stack services Reduces IT management complexity Business Increases business responsiveness with real-time capacity Benefits reallocation as demand for compute power grows Powers both existing and emerging data-intensive workloads © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Click above to Start Video Demo © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Example of How the Cloud Drives Innovation Leverage Cloud’s powerful combination of Web 2.0 collaboration platform and dynamic, secure computing environment to drive business transformations Virtualized Cloud Innovation Factory Incubation Environment Expand sources of Speed time to market for Lower barriers to IT innovation with a network new offerings by exploiting by leveraging Cloud of partners, customers, collaboration technology to to provide incubation researchers, and academia co-create and gather rapid environment for new feedback on new offerings prototypes © 2007 IBM Corporation LA Grid TM PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Education Research LALA GridGrid Talent Collaboration Development © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Agenda • Grid Computing Initiatives within IBM • World Community Grid • Decrypthon • Cloud Computing and Blue Cloud • Latin American Grid • What about the industry? • Convergence between Grid, Virtualization, and SOA © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Grids are Evolving UnifiedOpen Offerings Standards Adoption & Interoperability Grid NG Integrated Grids Transactional Grids Virtualization Service Metadata & Orientation Grid 2.0 Global Naming Information Grids Interoperable Components Caching & Data Resource-based Replication Scheduling Data Movement Scheduling (Grid-FTP) Grid 1.0 Batch & “Pleasingly Parallel” Toolkits & Jobs Custom Integration © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier Grid & Virtualization Logical Workload Information Resource Virtualization Virtualization (Distributed Data, Caching, Replication (Dynamic Scheduling) Management Federation, Transformation) IT System Storage Network Resource Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization (Workload Management, (Virtual Volume (Virtual Devices, Management Partitioning) Management) & Connectivity Common Resource Model Foundation Service Oriented (SOA) Foundation © 2007 IBM Corporation PSSC – IBM Customer Center Montpellier SOA Supports Grid How Grid Exploits Service Oriented Architecture Application components (services) can be easily distributed in as grid Composite Application workload or moved if resources fail or are overloaded Enterprise
Load more

Recommended publications
  • BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE Doi:10.1093/Bioinformatics/Btq011
    Vol. 26 no. 5 2010, pages 705–707 BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq011 Databases and ontologies Advance Access publication January 19, 2010 ProteinWorldDB: querying radical pairwise alignments among protein sets from complete genomes Thomas Dan Otto1,2,∗, Marcos Catanho1, Cristian Tristão3, Márcia Bezerra3, Renan Mathias Fernandes4, Guilherme Steinberger Elias4, Alexandre Capeletto Scaglia4, Bill Bovermann5, Viktors Berstis5, Sergio Lifschitz3, Antonio Basílio de Miranda1 and Wim Degrave1 1Laboratório de Genômica Funcional e Bioinformática, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, 3Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 4IBM Brasil, Hortolândia, São Paulo, Brazil and 5IBM, Austin, TX, USA Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia ABSTRACT nomenclature or might have no value when inferred from previous Motivation: Many analyses in modern biological research are incorrectly annotated sequences. Hence, secondary databases based on comparisons between biological sequences, resulting such as Swiss-Prot (http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/), PFAM (http:// in functional, evolutionary and structural inferences. When large pfam.sanger.ac.uk) or KEGG (http://www.genome.ad.jp/kegg), to numbers of sequences are compared, heuristics are often used mention only a few, have been implemented to analyze specific resulting in a certain lack of accuracy. In order to improve functional aspects and to improve the annotation procedures and and validate results of such comparisons, we have performed results. radical all-against-all comparisons of 4 million protein sequences Dynamic programming algorithms, or a fast approximation, belonging to the RefSeq database, using an implementation of the have been successfully applied to biological sequence comparison Smith–Waterman algorithm.
    [Show full text]
  • Distributed Computing with the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC
    Distributed Computing with the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC Eric Myers -19 Update COVID8 July 2020 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Linux Users Group 2 How BOINC Works …for like 8 to 12 hrs! BOINC Client BOINC is the software BOINC Server Windows framework that makes Linux Mac OS this all work. Linux 50+ separate projects (& Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc…) 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group 3 BOINC Dataflow 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group 4 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu SETI@home SETI@home is ”paused” in 2020 http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ or http://einsteinathome.orG Einstein@Home 78 new pulsars detected by 2020 7 Rosetta@home 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group 8 http://www.worldcommunitygrid.orG/ World CommunityAs of 2010 Grid Active The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy – Phase 2 Funded and operated by IBM Help Fight Childhood Cancer Help Conquer Cancer Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Completed FightAIDS@Home Nutritious Rice for the World Intermittent AfricanClimate@Home Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Influenza Antiviral Drug Search Genome Comparison The Clean Energy Project Help Defeat Cancer Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together Human Proteome Folding 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group 9 To Join: 1. Download BOINC 2. Run BOINC ManaGer 3. Tools -> Add Project 1 September 2010 Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group 10 Call to Action! Use your spare cycles to help fight COVID-19 World Community Grid Rosetta@home OpenPandemics - COVID-19 8 July 2020 HVopen 11 Rules and Policies Run BOINC only on authorized computers Run BOINC only on computers that you own, or for which you have obtained the owner’s permission.
    [Show full text]
  • Volunteer Computing and BOINC
    Volunteer Computing and BOINC David P. Anderson Space Sciences Lab UC Berkeley MAGIC October 5, 2016 Scientific Volunteer Consumer computing computing electronics BOINC ● Middleware for volunteer computing – Open-source, NSF-funded development – Community-maintained ● Server: used by scientists to make “projects” ● Client: runs on consumer devices – “attach” to projects – fetches/runs jobs in background Example projects ● Climateprediction.net ● Rosetta@home ● Einstein@home ● IBM World Community Grid ● CERN Current volunteered resources ● 500,000 active devices – BOINC + Folding@home ● 2.3M CPU cores, 290K GPUs ● 93 PetaFLOPS ● 85% Windows, 7% Mac, 7% Linux Performance potential ● 1 billion desktop/laptop PCs – CPUs: 10 ExaFLOPS – GPUs: 1,000 ExaFLOPS ● 5 billion smartphones – CPUs: 20 ExaFLOPS – GPUs: 1,500 ExaFLOPS Realistic potential ● Study: 5-10% of people who learn about VC would participate ● Devices compute 60% of the time ● So if we can tell the world about VC, could get 100 ExaFLOPS Cost cost of 1 TFLOPS/year 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 cost ($M) 1.5 1 0.5 0 CPU cluster Amazon EC2 BOINC BOINC job model ● An app can have many versions ● Submit jobs to apps, not versions ● The BOINC scheduler decides what version(s) to use in response to a particular request Per-platform apps ● Windows/Intel, 32 and 64 bit ● Mac OS X ● Linux/Intel ● Linux/ARM (works for Android too) Other types of apps ● Multicore ● GPU apps – CUDA (Nvidia) – CAL (AMD) – OpenCL (Nvidia, AMD, Intel) VM apps ● App is VM image + executable ● BOINC client interfaces via “Vbox
    [Show full text]
  • Laureate List 2011 3 27.Indd
    THE LAUREATE THE COMPUTERWORLD HONORS PROGRAM | 2011 SYBASE CONGRATULATES OUR 2011 COMPUTERWORLD HONORS LAUREATES Bulgarian Electricity System Operator Cherry Creek School District Citizens Financial Group Everything Everywhere Limited JAGTAG Kodak Imaging Network Korea Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) Matrix Systems and Solutions Medihelp Mobikash Afrika Congratulations Municipality of Aarhus 2011 Computerworld Honors Program New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Laureates, Finalists, and Services — NY-ALERT 21st Century Achievement Award Recipients Oasis Medical Solutions Philippine Social Security System (SSS) Rafael Belloso Chacin University (URBE) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services Ready for what’s next. Swiss Medical Group, Argentina The desire to make a difference is the fi rst step that leads to success. Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting fi rm, is proud Turkish Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (TurkDEX) to recognize the 2011 Computerworld Honors Program honorees. Thanks to your vision, commitment, and innovative use of IT, you’re making the world a better place. www.boozallen.com Copyright © 2011 Sybase, Inc. All rights reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under U.S. copyright laws. Sybase, and the Sybase logo, are trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. ® indicates registration in the United States of America. SAP, and the SAP logo, are the trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. BA11-157_Computerworld Ad_052011Final.indd 1 5/20/11 8:32 AM . THE JOURNAL OF THE COMPUTERWORLD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARDS FOUNDATION .
    [Show full text]
  • IBM's Contributions Towards Achieving the United Nations Sustainable
    IBM’s contributions towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals November 2018 2 Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 Products, services and solutions ........................................................................................................................... 5 Blockchain .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Watson IoT ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Watson Health .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Workforce diversity and inclusion ........................................................................................................................ 10 Women in the workplace .................................................................................................................................. 10 Diversity constituencies ................................................................................................................................... 11 Accessibility and persons with disabilities .....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Dcp : Ar Tt Covid-19
    Distributed Computing in a Pandemic: A Review of Technologies available for Tackling COVID-19 A Preprint Jamie J. Alnasir Department of Computing Imperial College London, UK [email protected] May 15, 2021 Abstract The current COVID-19 global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 betacoronavirus has resulted in over a million deaths and is having a grave socio-economic impact, hence there is an urgency to find solutions to key research challenges. Some important areas of focus are: vaccine development, designing or repurposing existing pharmacological agents for treatment by identifying druggable targets, predicting and diagnosing the disease, and tracking and reducing the spread. Much of this COVID-19 research depends on distributed computing. In this article, I review distributed architectures — various types of clusters, grids and clouds — that can be leveraged to performthese tasks at scale, at high-throughput,with a high degree of parallelism, and which can also be used to work collaboratively. High-performance computing (HPC) clusters, which aggregate their compute nodes using high- bandwidth networking and support a high-degree of inter-process communication, are ubiquitous across scientific research — they will be used to carry out much of this work. Several bigdata processing tasks used in reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 require high-throughput approaches, arXiv:2010.04700v3 [cs.DC] 18 May 2021 and a variety of tools, which Hadoop and Spark offer, even using commodity hardware. Extremely large-scale COVID-19 research has also utilised some of the world’s fastest supercom- puters, such as IBM’s SUMMIT — for ensemble docking high-throughput screening against SARS- CoV-2 targets for drug-repurposing,and high-throughputgeneanalysis — andSentinel, an XPE-Cray based system used to explore natural products.
    [Show full text]
  • Analyzing Daily Computing Runtimes on the World Community Grid
    https://doi.org/10.48009/3_iis_2020_289-297 Issues in Information Systems Volume 21, Issue 3, pp. 289-297, 2020 EXPLORING GRID COMPUTING & VOLUNTEER COMPUTING: ANALYZING DAILY COMPUTING RUNTIMES ON THE WORLD COMMUNITY GRID Kieran Raabe, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Loreen M. Powell, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] ABSTRACT In the early 1990s, the concept of grid computing was little more than a simple comparison which stated that making computing power as accessible as electricity from a power grid. Today, grid computing is far more complex. Grid computing involves utilizing unused computing power from devices across the globe to run calculations and simulations and submit the results to move a project closer to its goal. Some projects, such as World Community Grid, work to achieve numerous goals, herein referred to as subprojects. The goal of this research is to explore grid computing and volunteer computing. Specifically, this research involved a daily collection of statistics on daily results returned to World Community Grid and daily computing runtimes for three subprojects named Africa Rainfall Project, Microbiome Immunity Project, and Help Stop TB. The data collection lasted four weeks and resulted in five graphs for each subproject being created with the collected data. Results revealed a correlation between daily results returned and daily runtimes, with each data point for results returned being slightly lower than the runtime data point from the same day. Keywords: Grid Computing, Volunteer Computing, BOINC, World Community Grid INTRODUCTION The concept of grid computing has existed since the early 1990s. Originally “a metaphor for making computer power as easy to access by the user as electricity from a power grid” (Dutton & Jeffreys, 2010).
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and Java
    Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and Java Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. —John F. Kennedy Good design is good business. —Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank Objectives In this chapter you’ll learn: ■ Exciting recent developments in the computer field. ■ Computer hardware, software and networking basics. ■ The data hierarchy. ■ The different types of programming languages. ■ Basic object-technology concepts. ■ The importance of the Internet and the web. ■ A typical Java program-development environment. ■ To test-drive a Java application. ■ Some key recent software technologies. ■ How computers can help you make a difference. Outline 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Computers: Hardware and Software 1.3 Data Hierarchy 1.4 Computer Organization 1.5 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages 1.6 Introduction to Object Technology 1.7 Operating Systems 1.8 Programming Languages 1.9 Java and a Typical Java Development Environment 1.10 Test-Driving a Java Application 1.11 Web 2.0: Going Social 1.12 Software Technologies 1.13 Keeping Up-to-Date with Information Technologies 1.14 Wrap-Up Self-Review Exercises | Answers to Self-Review Exercises | Exercises | Making a Difference | Making a Difference Resources 2 Java How to Program, Ninth Edition 1.1 Introduction Welcome to Java—the world’s most widely used computer programming language. You’re already familiar with the powerful tasks computers perform. Using this textbook, you’ll write instructions commanding computers to perform those kinds of tasks.
    [Show full text]
  • 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report
    2018 Corporate Responsibility Report Trust and responsibility. Earned and practiced daily. #GoodTechIBM IBM 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report | 1 Trust and responsibility. Earned and practiced daily. We have seen, for more than a century, that when to the boardroom. They are core to every — We invested hundreds of millions of dollars in we apply science to real-world problems, we can relationship — with our employees, our clients, programs to help train and prepare the global create a tomorrow that is better than today. More our shareholders, and the communities in which workforce for this new era. These initiatives sustainable. More equitable. More secure. we live and work. include 21st century apprenticeship programs, returnships for women reentering In fact, we have never known a time when In this report, you will read about the many the workforce, veterans programs and science and technology had more potential to achievements we made to further this foundation volunteer skills-building sessions for more benefit society than right now. of trust and responsibility throughout 2018. than 3.2 million students worldwide. And we For example: helped scale the P-TECH™ school model — a In the last 10 years alone, the world has achieved six-year program that offers a high school Ginni Rometty at P-TECH in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 2019 stunning advancements, from breaking the — After reaching our aggressive goals to increase diploma and an associate’s degree, along AI winter to the dawn of quantum computing. our use of renewable energy and reduce CO2 with real-world working experience and These and other advanced technologies have emissions 4 years ahead of schedule, we set mentorship — at no cost to students.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Fold Here,' Say 130,000 Computers 19 August 2005
    'Fold here,' say 130,000 computers 19 August 2005 It's already made computations equal to a single about which the world cares. We look forward to PC running continuously for more than 14,000 working with our employees, customers and the years. It has 83,000 human members and more public to execute this exciting vision," said Stanley than 130,000 machines. It may be among the 20 S. Litow, vice president of IBM Corporate largest "computers" in the world. It's World Community Relations and president of the IBM Community Grid. Announced in November, World International Foundation. Community Grid is simple in concept: harness some of the unused computing power of the World Community Grid also continues to build a world's 650 million PCs. network of dedicated partners who encourage their employees, members, students and faculty to join. To join, anyone with Internet access simply Along with IBM, other partners include United downloads a secure, free, and small software Devices, Semiconductor Industry Association, program onto their laptop or home computer. Then United Way of New York City, the Center for with World Community Grid’s agent running in the Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and background of each PC, the project applies Information Technology Association of Canada. massed computing power to math-intensive research that will unlock genetic codes underlying You can join at www.worldcommunitygrid.org diseases such as cancer, HIV and Alzheimer's. It's a model similar to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), but with a more down to earth focus. As one headline writer put it: Forget aliens; cure malaria.
    [Show full text]
  • Taking a Coffee Break Could Help Find Cures for Cancer Or Aids. Katrina
    Community computing Idle cures Taking a coffee break could help find cures for cancer or Aids. Katrina Megget looks at the future of research that harnesses the computing power of the World Community Grid It’s not every day that just twiddling Institute in Hawthorne, US. ‘It’s like diseases, time and money is of the your thumbs might solve some of In short that with humans and the same holds essence in medical research. humanity’s biggest health problems. The World Community true for computers.’ This is exactly where the grid But while you are off having your Grid uses volunteers’ PCs comes in. ‘For example,’ says Jasinski, caffeine fix or gossiping over the to run simulations during Together we’re stronger ‘if we have a million molecules we water cooler, behind the scenes your inactive periods Since their conception, computers want to test to see if they will be computer could be helping to find The vast number of have always had a strong role in effective as new drugs, we need the cure for cancer or Aids. In fact, computers involved can research, performing complex to do one computation for each 1.6 million personal computers in slash computation times algorithms and the like. However, molecule. If I only have one idle mode are currently chugging from years to weeks it has only been in recent years that computer and each calculation through a plethora of virtual Projects range computing power has been granted takes one minute, it will take me a simulations, from protein folding to from drug discovery to the average worker.
    [Show full text]
  • Deploying and Maintaining a Campus Grid at Clemson University Dru Sepulveda Clemson University, [email protected]
    Clemson University TigerPrints All Theses Theses 8-2009 Deploying and Maintaining a Campus Grid at Clemson University Dru Sepulveda Clemson University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses Part of the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Sepulveda, Dru, "Deploying and Maintaining a Campus Grid at Clemson University" (2009). All Theses. 662. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/662 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Deploying and Maintaining a Campus Grid at Clemson University A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Masters Computer Science by Dru Sepulveda May 2009 Accepted by: Sebastien Goasguen, Committee Chair Mark Smotherman Steven Stevenson Abstract Many institutions have all the tools needed to create a local grid that aggregates commodity compute resources into an accessible grid service, while simultaneously maintaining user satisfaction and system security. In this thesis, the author presents a three-tiered strategy used at Clemson University to deploy and maintain a grid infrastructure by making resources available to both local and federated remote users for scientific research. Using this approach virtually no compute cycles are wasted. Usage trends and power consumption statistics collected from the Clemson campus grid are used as a reference for best-practices. The loosely-coupled components that comprise the campus grid work together to form a highly cohesive infrastructure that not only meets the computing needs of local users, but also helps to fill the needs of the scientific community at large.
    [Show full text]