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USI.4 |
Desktop Grid (phase 2) |
| Long Title: | USI Desktop Grid (phase 2) |
| Leading Organization: |
Universita della Svizzera Italiana |
| Domain: | Grid |
| Status: | finished |
| Start Date: | 01.09.2009 |
| End Date: | 01.12.2009 |
| Project Leader: | C. Pautasso |
| Deputy Project Leader: | Ch. Bianchi |
During this second phase the USI Desktop Grid has reached a size of 150 clients and established access control and resource sharing policies to open a subset of the USI campus Grid to outside access.
(see also phase 1)
Results
The project team achieved both its primary and secondary goal:
- significantly grow the available local computational resources by harvesting additional computational power from existing desktop PCs from student labs, and
- pave the way for their future integration on the Swiss National Campus Grid by setting up a gateway machine.
The gateway server (grid.inf.unisi.ch) is accessible for members of the Faculty of Informatics only (can request access).
Pointers to the Condor Campus Grid documentation and information on how to get support is available on
the internal password protected wiki of the Faculty of Informatics (http://intranet.wiki.lu.unisi.ch/index.php/Informatics_Computing_Resources).
Outlook
It is planned to continue the collaboration in the context of the Campus Grid WG of SwiNG in order to use the results of this project to integrate Campus Grid resources across multiple institutions.
Goals
The primary goal of the USI Desktop Grid phase 2 project is to continue the work of the
completed USI Desktop Grid (phase 1) project to triple in size the local campus Grid.
This will provide additional computational capacity for USI by harvesting the power of
Desktop PC found in student labs across the campus.
The secondary goal is to provide additional spare capacity so that it will be feasible
to share part of the larger USI campus Grid in the Swiss National Grid Infrastructure.
This will require to set up the necessary technical infrastructure for interfacing the USI
campus Grid with similar campus Grids found in other Swiss Universities.
This will be done by installing, configurating, testing, and operating a gateway server next to
the existing central Condor scheduler and resource manager to provide access to resources found in
other University campus grids.
We will also begin to experiment with the possibility of receiving jobs from external schedulers to be
executed using the local USI resources.