Posted by md
on February 09, 2006
During the lecture today, I also demonstrated how to submit jobs to the Unicore Testbed. It is very easy to install the client and get running.
If you want to play around with the Persistance of Vision Raytracer, here are my files: The Unicore job definition and the möbius input file.
Please note the Unicore job definition is a hack: it doesn’t exploit many of Unicores features. Of course, you can use any povray input file, and change the povray parameters to generate bigger images. But please keep in mind: this is a demonstration testbed, so please do not hack the system, or generate a lot of traffic.
Posted by md
on February 09, 2006
I promised that there will be a presentation movie of todays lecture – but I didn’t manage to use my recording software properly. So there is no movie of the lecture available. But I will try to create separate movies for the chapters of the lecture – who wants to listen to more than a hour of lecture anyway?
Stay tuned…
Posted by md
on February 08, 2006
I will give a lecture introducing the basic concepts of grid computing tomorrow. The lecture consists of a talk and a demo, more specifically:
- What is grid computing? Demo of Unicore included!
- Grid security
- Grid resource management
- Grid data management
It will take place at the TU Kaiserslautern, Feb. 9, 2005, 10 a.m., in room 36-438. You’re welcome to attend it.
This is the material I created, you may reuse it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany License. I think this is version 0.6 of the final talk, so I’ll have to refine it next year.
During my talk, I mention the Unicore testbed, available here: Unicore Test Grid. You can easily play around with Unicore, just follow the instructions give there.
Another easy way to look at grid technology is the Instant Grid project: you can download a Knoppix”-based live CD that allows you to build a Globus Toolkit 4-based home grid.