PrintIntegration of Desktop Grids into Service Grids - EU Project EDGI
Using another one`s computer for your computations, tests, automated tasks or applications instead of slowing down your own is the most basic idea of Grid Computing. Grid Systems provide powerful self-managing compute resources, which consists out of large collections of connected systems and using a grid enables the user to execute his computation remotely. This does not only enables speeding up computations by using more compute resources than your own computer can provide, but also allows running parallel execution of different computations. The result is faster progress or more detailed computations.
Grid Computing distinguishes two types of systems. Compute resources (e.g. clusters) in Service Grids are dedicated resources to serve compute power. Desktop Grids are build from general-purpose desktop PCs, which are typically underutilized and which offer their free resources of modern computers for research computations.
The EDGI-Project will integrate Desktop Grids into the primarily used Service Grids. This will dramatically increase the available capacity for researchers. As part of this project, we integrate access to Desktop Grid resources into one the most important Service Grid middleware environment UNICORE [3].
Your work for the Bachelor's Thesis includes the implementation and evaluation of the UNICORE integration, considering aspects like performance and usability.
