Campus grid deployment with automation

Nurika, Okta

Abstract

Campus grid is a feasible deployment of grid computing since campus environment is equally controlled and the managerial permission is simpler than any other industries. The usability of grid computing is also potentially high, because of the numerous demands from students or researchers in need of high-end computational power and data storage. However, automated efficient way of campus grid platform deployment has never been disclosed, therefore we propose a methodology to deploy a campus grid with automation based on the desktop-grid architecture. Some related issues and challenges that are currently being addressed, with improvements further to be explored, are presented in this paper. Large scale campus grid deployment in this campus involving multiple computer labs and hundreds of computers in total was accomplished, by combining both automation scripts and manual intervention. The chosen campus grid software system is Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). This practice is expected to guide future BOINC campus grid administrators to establish a working grid computing system, in order to provide grid-based computing and storage resources for running especially heavy simulation programs. © 2024, Collegium Basilea. All rights reserved.

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