A public grid computing framework based on a hierarchical combination of middleware

Authors:
Yingjie Xia;Yao Zheng;Yudang Li
Affiliations:
College of Computer Science, and Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China;College of Computer Science, and Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China;College of Computer Science, and Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
Venue:
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advanced Web and Network Technologies, and Applications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Grids, as one implementation of public computing, can be deployed by some middleware to integrate all kinds of resources across institutional boundaries, to tackle complex problems in scientific and engineering computation, data storage, scientific visualization, etc. In this paper, we propose a public computing grid framework built upon the hierarchical combination of two popular middleware products, Globus Toolkit (GT) and Sun Grid Engine (SGE). The communication between them can be conducted by Transfer-queue Over Globus (TOG). We discuss issues related to the deployment and the usage of this kind of hybrid grids. We examine it using serial programs and parallel program codes, and compare it with the grids deployed by only GT or SGE, respectively. The case studies imply that this hybrid grid is suitable for loosely coupled applications with high computational complexity.