Archived: 21 January 2009
University of Adelaide Masters by coursework thesis, June 2007.
Supervisors: Paul Coddington and Andrew Wendelborn
Over the last few years, the Grid Computing technologies has rapidly evolved towards a serviceoriented architecture based on standards developed within the Web Services and open Grid computing communities, however, few of the current large scale and national grid projects have utilized the latest WSbased grid middlewares and standards for constructing a serviceoriented grid, consequently, most of the current grid job scheduling systems just provide support for the old grid middlewares and standards, rather than the latest WSbased grid technologies. Furthermore, no matter what standards or middlewares these metaschedulers support, none of them offer the capabilities for advanced scheduling which are very important to build a completely virtualized working environment for domain experts, thus enabling them fully focus problem solving rather than any specific technical details. All of these problems have become serious obstacles to fully deliver the potential of a WSbased grid system.
This project aims to make up the gap between the latest WSbased grid middlewares and information standards and the functionalities provided by current grid job scheduling systems. Our major work is to customize and deploy a powerful scheduling system which fully supports forefront serviceoriented grid middlewares and standards, thus enabling it to fully virtualize the high performance computing resources across a serviceoriented Grid, and provide the grid users with an easytouse, intelligent job submission and execution environment. Our implementation initially focuses on the Australian Nation Grid, a large scale and national grid which is using the latest web based grid middlewares and standards. Our major contribution will be providing important information and related experience for virtualizing computing resources across and deploying a metascheduling system on a serviceoriented Grid, based on the latest WSbased grid technologies.