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Abstract for Seminar

     
Minimum intrusion Grid
Tuesday 22nd February 2005 16:00 Brian Spratt Room
     
Dr Brian Vinter
Director, Nordic DataGrid 		 
     

This talk introduces the philosophy behind a new Grid model, the "Minimum intrusion Grid", MiG. The idea behind MiG is to introduce a `fat' Grid infrastructure which will allow much `slimmer' Grid installations on both the user and resource side. The talk presents the ideas behind MiG, some initial designs and finally a status report of the implementation.

Grid computing is just around the top of the hype-curve, and while large demonstrations of Grid middleware exists, including Globus toolkit and NorduGrid ARC, the tendency in Grid middleware these days is towards a less powerful model -- Grid services -- than what was available previously. This reduction in sophistication is driven by a desire to provide more stable and manageable Grid systems. While striving for stability and manageability is obviously right, doing so at the cost of features and flexibility is not so obviously correct.

The "Minimum intrusion Grid", MiG, is an attempt to design a new platform for Grid computing which is driven by a stand-alone approach to Grid, rather than integration with existing systems. The goal of the MiG project is to provide a Grid infrastructure where the requirements on users and resources alike, to join Grid, is as small as possible -- thus the minimum intrusion part. While striving for minimum intrusion, MiG will still seek to provide a feature rich and dependable Grid solution.

This talk introduces the philosophy behind a new Grid model, the "Minimum intrusion Grid", MiG. The idea behind MiG is to introduce a `fat' Grid infrastructure which will allow much `slimmer' Grid installations on both the user and resource side. The talk presents the ideas behind MiG, some initial designs and finally a status report of the implementation.

Grid computing is just around the top of the hype-curve, and while large demonstrations of Grid middleware exists, including Globus toolkit and NorduGrid ARC, the tendency in Grid middleware these days is towards a less powerful model -- Grid services -- than what was available previously. This reduction in sophistication is driven by a desire to provide more stable and manageable Grid systems. While striving for stability and manageability is obviously right, doing so at the cost of features and flexibility is not so obviously correct.

The "Minimum intrusion Grid", MiG, is an attempt to design a new platform for Grid computing which is driven by a stand-alone approach to Grid, rather than integration with existing systems. The goal of the MiG project is to provide a Grid infrastructure where the requirements on users and resources alike, to join Grid, is as small as possible -- thus the minimum intrusion part. While striving for minimum intrusion, MiG will still seek to provide a feature rich and dependable Grid solution.


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