It provides a framework to host the high-level services.
The core consists of OGSI reference implementation, security
infrastructure, and System level services.
2. What are the two levels of security available in GT3?
Transport-level security-based on GSI security mechanism. Message-level security-implemented at the SOAP message level. 3. What are the features of grid service container? The grid service container provides the following value-added features: Lightweight service introspection and discovery Dynamic deployment and soft-state management of stateful grid services Transport-independent, message-level security infrastructure supporting credential delegation, message signing, encryption, and authorization 4. Define OGSI. The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) was published by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) as a proposed recommendation in June 2003. It was intended to provide an infrastructure layer for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). OGSI takes the statelessness issues (along with others) into account by essentially extending Web services to accommodate grid computing resources that are both transient and stateful. 5. List some grid computing toolkits and frameworks? Globus Toolkit Globus Resource Allocation Manager(GRAM) Grid Security Infrastructure(GSI) Information Services Legion Condor and Condor-G NIMROD UNICORE NMI
6. Define the Virtual Observatory (VO) or World-Wide telescope
The Virtual Observatory called the World-Wide Telescope is under construction in many countries. It seeks to provide portals, protocols, and standards that unify the worlds astronomy archives into a giant database containing all astronomy literature, images, raw data, derived datasets, and simulation dataintegrated as a single intelligent telescope. 7. Discuss BIRN The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pioneering the use of Grid infrastructure for medical research and patient care through the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) project. Central to the project is the establishment of a scalable infrastructure consisting of advanced networks, federated distributed data collections, computational resources, and software technologies to meet the evolving needs of investigators who have formed testbed scientific collaborations.
8. What is GRAM & GSI
The Grid Resource Allocation Management (GRAM) is used to remotely launch computationally intensive neuroscience applications. The Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) is a fundamental component of the system architecture, providing authentication and authorization services using public key certificates.
9. Discuss how grid technology helps to Federated Computing?
Grid technology has shown great promise to manage effectively the addition and removal of heterogeneous institutional resources in a dynamic virtual organization; expose these resources to the entire worldwide collaboration with a consistent set of protocols and APIs; and provide mechanisms to control and optimize the enormous flow of data from the CMS detector to scientists working around the world.
10. How Globus Toolkit Services is used by the Butterfly Grid?
Three functions that the Globus Toolkit can provide to the interactive gaming application environment: Staging and maintenance of a code base in a distributed environment Scheduling, monitoring, and termination of application process instances in a distributed environment A monitoring framework for real-time instrumentation