Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

The change is being proposed in view of the experience of delivering this unit and student feedback. The change is for 2nd Semester 2010.

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is one of four core units in the Distributed Mobile Systems Specialisation and the Software Engineering Specialisation of the Master of Information Technology (MIT) and Master of Applied Information Technology (MAIT). It is also available as an elective for all FIT masters.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be able to evaluate enabling technologies such as high-speed links and storage area networks for building computer grids;
• be able to utilise grid computing and clustering middleware, such as Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Message Passing Interface (MPI), HPC Portals, and Peer-to-Peer networks for implementing virtual super computing resources;
• be able to design a grid computing application in one of the key application areas e.g. Computer Animation, E-Research;
• be able to install a grid computing environment;
• develop communications skills and accept the code of professional conduct and practice through short presentations and group work.

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E-Research provides means to harnessing contemporary ICT capabilities for solving challenging problems in science, medicine, and engineering. Computer grids play an pivotal role in E-Research; providing a seamless (web-like) access to a variety of networked resources, e.g. large data stores and information repositories, expensive instruments, high-speed links, sensors networks, and multimedia services for a wide range of applications. Topics covered include: Computational and Service-Oriented Grids, Grid-enabled Applications,. Gridservices, OGSA, Webservices, WSDL, Clustered Computing, GridMPI, Instruments and Sensors, Parametric Computing, P2P, and Data Grids.

On-campus

Examination (2 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

6

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

Crash and burn lab required

FIT

One of FIT9017, FIT9008, FIT9004 or FIT9018

Asad Khan