Tittle | Study of Grid Computing for Next Generation Computing |
Principla Investigator | Hermawan K. Dipojono |
Researcher | Eko Mursito Budi |
Year | 2007 |
This research aims to find the virtual computing system to support the rural Next Generation Computing (r-NGC). The first stage was to study the well known middlewares for cluster and grid computing, including:
About 20 computers has been configured as grid computing at the computing facility TF ITB. The study showed that Mosix and globus are really powerfull for parallel computing, especially for scientific applications where the users would write their own program using either Java, C or Fortran langguages. However, both are not helpfull for common applications such as word processors, spreadheet, nor web browser. Unfortunatelly, that common applications are the most used ones in r-NGC.
Therefore, this research has been considering other alternatives from the available open source software technology. The focus is on using X-Windows, especially to enhance the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) system. A simpler, yet flexible solution has been designed, comprises of 3+1 layers as follow:
An extended study has been conducted to implement the design by using open source software. The proposed implementation would be:
The implementation of this design will be conducted on the next research.
Kontributor: Mursito