ESTEBLISHMENT OF GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR GRID FTP CLIENT SERVER MODEL

Abstract

A Grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities. “Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications and high-performance orientation. The aim of this dissertation is to establish a grid computing environment for GridFTP client server model, a data management component using Globus toolkit 2.4. The Grid toolkit is widely used tool and libraries for grid computing including certificate based authentication and comprises a set of components that implement basic services for security, resource location, resource management, data management, communication etc. We present an extensible Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and software development kits are categorized according to their roles. We describe GridFTP service extends the popular FTP protocol with new features required for Grid applications, such as striping and partial file access. Grid FTP C API is used to implement different functionality of protocol. iii