Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of DesktopGrid

Timestamp:

Oct 7, 2008, 9:47:37 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

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DesktopGrid

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  * Client deployment is typically automated.
 
-== BOINC as a grid computing platform ==
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+== Using BOINC as a grid platform ==
+
 Although it was originally designed for volunteer computing, BOINC works very well for grid computing.
 The steps in creating a BOINC-based grid are:
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 configure your firewall to prevent HTTP access to your BOINC server.
 
-For more information on grid computing using BOINC, and some useful pre-compiled software,
-visit [http://desktopgrid.hu/ Desktopgrid.hu].
+Some resources
 
+* The [http://desktopgrid.hu/ SZTAKI desktop grid] project has developed software allowing hierarchical organizations to share resources in a way that reflects the hierarchy.
+
+* The University of Extremadura is using BOINC to allow a group of peer organizations to form a computational grid. They have developed an
+[http://forja.unex.es/projects/ogm open-source system called OGM] for this purpose.
+See a [http://webrt.ciemat.es:8000/docs/e-science/Vega.pdf description of an earlier version of the system].
+
+
+== Integrating BOINC with other grid platforms ==
+
+ * [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_13Setting_Up.html#SECTION004139000000000000000 Run BOINC using Condor's backfill mechanism]
+ * Researchers are CERN have set up a system where submitted jobs are sent either to a BOINC project or to a GRAM job manager. They developed two utilities, <tt>kill_wu</tt> and <tt>poll_wu</tt>, to support this. They are in the boinc/tools directory. Contact Christian Søttrup (chrulle at fatbat.dk) for more info.
+
+ * The [http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/ Lattice] project from the University of Maryland has developed a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.
+
+ * The [http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ SuperLink] project from Technion University developed a system that dynamically assigns jobs to a central server, a local cluster, the EGEE grid, or a BOINC project, based on their estimated runtime.
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+ * The [http://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home] project has incorporated two United States Air Force Department of Defence LSF clusters and an additional Beowulf cluster in their beta project. Tools to facilitate this included: LSF submission scripts, control scripts to dynamically clean up potentially reschedule clients upon node time out and a multiple BOINC instance installer.