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M.E./M.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011. Common to : M.E. - Computer Science and Engineering/M.Tech. - Information Technology Elective 241072 GRID COMPUTING (Regulation 2010) Time : Three hours Answer ALL questions. PART A (10 2 = 20 marks) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What is the role of schedulers in the computational grids? State the objectives and work areas of GGF. How is grid computing different from Peer-to-Peer computing? Define SOA. What are the core requirements for describing web services based on OGSI? Specify the complex security challenges faced by the grid community. What is the significance of message handlers in GT3? Give the possible ways of creating and adding service data to a service data set in GT3. 9. 10. List the high level services offered by GT3 toolkit. Mention the two aspects of GRAM architecture. Maximum : 100 marks

PART B (5 16 = 80 marks) 11. (a) (i) (ii) Compare and contrast Computational grids and data grids. (6)

How are resources shared in a virtual organization? Explain with a neat sketch. (10) Or

(b)

Discuss about the basic classifications of grid computing organizations. (16) Draw the layered grid architecture and explain the functionality of each layer. Also specify, how it is related to the internet protocol architecture. (16) Or

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(a)

(b) 13. (a)

Illustrate about the fundamental components and features of SOAP. (16) List and explain about the OGSA basic services, and functionalities. (16) Or

(b)

(i) (ii)

With the help of the diagram, discuss about OGSA security architecture. (8) Explain WSRF with its diagrams. (8) (16)

14.

(a)

Draw and explain, how secure conversion is established in OGSI. Or

(b) 15. (a)

Discuss about the implementation of ACME search service. Describe about the index services available in GT3. Or

(16) (16)

(b)

Elucidate about the OGSI.NET architecture in detail.

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