URGIS: The Unified Relational Grid Information Services Project

The Unified Relational Grid Information Services Project is an NSF-funded collaborative research effort involving Northwestern University and Indiana University that seeks to apply the relational data model to static and dynamic grid information. The motivation and goals of this project are best described by this paper. Other work in this area can be found in the Relational Grid Information Services Research Group (RGIS RG) of the Global Grid Forum

The companion RGR project at Indiana is also available.

People

  • Peter Dinda (co-PI), Northwestern University
  • Dong Lu (Graduate Student), Northwestern
  • Ananth Sundararaj (Graduate Student), Northwestern
  • Ashish Gupta (Graduate Student), Northwestern
  • Matt Zielinski (Undergraduate Student), Northwestern
  • Andrew Weinrich (Undergraduate Student), Northwestern
  • Jack Lange (Undergraduate Student), Northwestern

    • Talks

  • Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation on Web Server Scheduling Policies (MASCOTS 2005) (ppt)
  • Distributed Popularity Indices (SIGCOMM 2005) (pdf poster)
  • Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network (ICDCS 2005) (ppt)
  • Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network (IPDPS 2005 ) (ppt)
  • Size-based Scheduling Policies with Inaccurate Scheduling Information (MASCOTS 2004) (ppt)
  • Applications of SRPT Scheduling with Inaccurate Information (MASCOTS 2004) (ppt poster)
  • Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Peter Dinda, November, 2003. (Presented by Peter Dinda at Supercomputing 2003) (ppt)
  • Synthesizing Realistic Computational Grids, Dong Lu, November, 2003. (Presented by Dong Lu at Supercomputing 2003) (ppt)
  • Scoped and Approximate Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Dong Lu, November, 2003. (Presented by Dong Lu at the 4th Grid Workshop) (ppt)
  • A Unified Relational Approach to Grid Information Services (ICDCS 2003) (powerpoint poster)
  • Unified Relational GIS: Workloads, Schemas,Early Performance Results, Peter Dinda, July, 2002. (Presented by Peter Dinda at GGF5) (pdf) ss
  • A Unified Relational Approach to Grid Information Services (Presentation of White Paper), Peter Dinda and Beth Plale, March, 2001. (Presented by Peter Dinda at the First Global Grid Forum) (powerpoint)
  • LDAP Query Access: Challenges and Opportunities, Beth Plale and Peter Dinda, October, 2000. (Presented by Beth Plale at Grid Forum 5) (powerpoint)
  • Using XML as the Foundation for a Network Resource Description Language, Peter Dinda, August, 1999. See how slow XML is! (powerpoint)
  • RPS Notes and RPS/Remos Relational Schema, Peter Dinda, March, 99. (powerpoint)

    • Papers

  • D. Lu, P. Dinda, Y. Qiao, H. Sheng, Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation on Web Server Scheduling Policies, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2005), (pdf)

  • A. Gupta, P. Dinda, and F. Bustamante, Distributed Popularity Indices (poster), Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2005, (pdf)

  • P. Dinda, D. Lu, Fast Compositional Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, accepted by the Journal of Grid Computing

  • D. Lu, Components of a Scalable Distributed Relational Information Service, Doctoral Dissertation, Technical Report NWU-CS-05-09, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, (pdf)

  • D. Lu, Y. Qiao, P. Dinda, and F. Bustamante, Characterizing and Pr\edicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2005), (pdf)

  • D. Lu, Y. Qiao, P. Dinda, and F. Bustamante, Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network, Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), (pdf)

  • D. Lu, H. Sheng, P. Dinda, Size-based Scheduling Policies With Inaccurate Scheduling Information, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), (pdf)

  • D. Lu, P. Dinda, Y. Qiao, H. Sheng, F. Bustamante, Applications of SRPT Scheduling with Inaccurate Information, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), (pdf)

  • D. Lu, P. Dinda, J. Skicewicz, Scoped and Approximate Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2003), To Appear, (pdf)

  • P. Dinda, D. Lu, Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Proceedings of Supercomputing 2003 (SC 2003), To Appear, (pdf)

  • D. Lu, P. Dinda, Synthesizing Realistic Computational Grids, Proceedings of Supercomputing 2003 (SC 2003), To Appear, (pdf)

  • P. Dinda, D. Lu, Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Technical Report NWU-CS-03-15, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, (pdf)

  • P. Dinda, B.Plale, A Unified Relational Approach to Grid Information Services (poster), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2003), (pdf) (See also GWD-GIS-012-1 below)

  • D. Lu, and P. Dinda, GridG: Generating Realistic Computational Grids, Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 30, Number 4, March 2003, (pdf)

  • B. Plale, P. Dinda, and G. von Laszewski, Key Concepts and Services of a Grid Information Service, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2002), (pdf)

  • P. Dinda, B. Plale, A Unified Relational Approach to Grid Information Services, Grid Forum Informational Draft GWD-GIS-012-1 (pdf, ps).

    • Codes

  • TameParallelTCP
  • GridG: A Generator of Synthetic Grids
  • RGIS-2: system (to come)
  • RGIS-1: perl scripts to generate and manipulate the schema presented in the first whitepaper. (author: Matt Zielinski) (tgz file)

    • Acknowledgement

    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ACI-0112891. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
    Peter Dinda
    Last modified: Mon Jul 17 13:58:29 CDT 2006