Dependable Grids
The Dependable Grids project at
NCSA and
the University of Virginia
developed innovative techniques and technologies for dependable grid
computing.
Grids face threats from equipment or software failures, physical
damage from natural disasters, and malicious cyberattacks.
Engineering a system to withstand all such attacks would be
prohibitively expensive and complex, so we focus on developing
a survivable system that provides one or more alternate
services in the event an attack or failure disrupts the primary
service.
We conducted our research in the context of the
Open Grid Services Architecture,
using
WSRF.NET
and
the Globus Toolkit.
See also:
RFT Clustering
The project group at NCSA developed modifications to the
GT4
Reliable File Transfer
service.
See Bug 4927
for the latest patch.
Publications
- J. Rowanhill, G. Wasson, Z. Hill, J. Basney, Y. Kiryakov, J. Knight,
A. Nguyen-Tuong, A. Grimshaw and M. Humphrey,
"Dynamic System-wide Reconfiguration of Grid Deployments in Response
to Intrusion Detections,"
High Performance Computation Conference (HPCC 2007),
Sept 26-28, 2007. Houston, TX.
[pdf]
- Z. Hill, J. Rowanhill, A. Nguyen-Tuong, J. Basney, G. Wasson,
J. Knight and M. Humphrey,
"Meeting Virtual Organization Performance
Goals through Adaptive Grid Reconfiguration,"
8th IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, TX,
Sept 19-21, 2007.
[pdf]
- Jim Basney and Patrick Duda.
Clustering the Reliable File Transfer Service.
TeraGrid Conference, Madison, WI. June 4-8, 2007.
[pdf]
[doc]
[ppt]
- A. Grimshaw, M. Humphrey, J.C. Knight, A. Nguyen-Tuong,
J. Rowanhill, G. Wasson, and J. Basney.
The
Development of Dependable and Survivable Grids.
2005 Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Applications (associated
with the 2005 International Conference on Computational
Science).
Emory University, Atlanta, GA. May 22-25, 2005.
[pdf]
Project Team