Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6703 Grid and Cloud Computing - Syllabus - Download

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Evolution of Distributed computing: Scalable computing over the Internet – Technologies for network based systems –
clusters of cooperative computers - Grid computing Infrastructures – cloud computing - service oriented architecture –
Introduction to Grid Architecture and standards – Elements of Grid – Overview of Grid Architecture.

UNIT II GRID SERVICES 9

Introduction to Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) – Motivation – Functionality Requirements – Practical & 
Detailed view of OGSA/OGSI – Data intensive grid service models – OGSA services.

UNIT III VIRTUALIZATION 9

Cloud deployment models: public, private, hybrid, community – Categories of cloud computing: Everything as a service: Infrastructure, platform, software - Pros and Cons of cloud computing – Implementation levels of virtualization –
virtualization structure – virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O devices – virtual clusters and Resource Management –
Virtualization for data center automation.

UNIT IV PROGRAMMING MODEL 9

Open source grid middleware packages – Globus Toolkit (GT4) Architecture , Configuration – Usage of Globus – Main 
components and Programming model - Introduction to Hadoop Framework - Mapreduce, Input splitting, map and 
reduce functions, specifying input and output parameters, configuring and running a job – Design of Hadoop file system, HDFS concepts, command line and java interface, dataflow of File read & File write.

UNIT V SECURITY 9

Trust models for Grid security environment – Authentication and Authorization methods – Grid security infrastructure –
Cloud Infrastructure security: network, host and application level – aspects of data security, provider data and its 
security, Identity and access management architecture, IAM practices in the cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS availability in the 
cloud, Key privacy issues in the cloud.

Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6703 Grid and Cloud Computing - Syllabus - Download