GridSAM on a Cloud

Google Summer of Code 2008 ideas

Primary Mentor: Stephen McGough (asm at doc.ic.ac.uk)
Secondary Mentor: Jeremy Cohen
OMII Project: GridSAM.

Description

Cloud computing is emerging as a new high availability mechanism for executing users code. Clouds are mechanisms for exposing large amounts of computing resources to the end users in a manner which saves the user from worrying where the resources are or how they are configured. At present the instances of Cloud services use bespoke interfaces for the users to submit their executables for execution. The GridSAM|http://gridsam.sourceforge.net] project is an open source project for making resources available through a standardised job submission interface BES using a standardised job submission language JSDL available from the Open Grid Forum. GridSAM provides a veneer over existing resources (either clusters or single computers) which translates the incoming standardised job submission into the format required by the underlying architecture. The aim of this project is to expose Cloud computing resources (such as the Amazon EC2 service) through these standardised job submission interfaces such that users can submit jobs to GridSAM will have them run on the Cloud. This will happen in a transparent manner to the user. Although this work will develop code for the currently available Cloud computing clusters it is intended that it will be generic enough to be adapted for the other Cloud computing systems which are planned in the near future.

Project Requirements

T he project requires a competent programmer with experience of developing Web Services in Java, processing XML. Prior experience with Grid or Cloud computing would be desirable.