Date of Award
5-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Legacy Department
Computer Science
Committee Chair/Advisor
Goasguen, Sebastien
Committee Member
Martin , James
Committee Member
Srimani , Pradip
Abstract
The Scientific community is constantly growing in size. The increase in personnel number and projects have resulted in the requirement of large amounts of storage, CPU power and other computing resources. It has also become necessary to acquire these resources in an affordable
manner that is sensitive to work loads. In this thesis, the author presents a novel approach that provides the communication platform that will support such large scale scientific projects. These resources could be difficult to acquire due to NATs, firewalls and other site-based restrictions and policies. Methods used to overcome these hurdles have been discussed in detail along with other advantages of using such a system, which include: increased availability of necessary computing infrastructure; increased grid resource utilization; reduced user dependability; reduced job execution time. Experiments conducted included local infrastructure on the Clemson University Campus as
well as resources provided by other federated grid sites.
Recommended Citation
Vadakedathu, Linton, "Building Scientific Clouds: The Distributed, Peer-to-Peer Approach" (2010). All Theses. 786.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/786