[Politecnico di Milano] [Department of Electronics and Information] [PhD Program]

Autonomic Services

Course for PhD students in Information Engineering

Nov. 5-27, 2007

Proff. Barbara Pernici and Danilo Ardagna

Objectives:

The course introduces the topics of designing and managing services on Grid and virtualized infrastructures. The goal of the course is to provide a basic introduction to grid technologies, to discuss their role in Virtual Organizations, and to present in detail self-managing and autonomic optimization techniques.

Course Timetable (each class will be from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm)

• 5/11 Introduction: Grid, Workflow and autonomic services research issues. Architecture of Autonomic service centers. slides: AutonomicServices_1a.ppt, AutonomicServices_1b.ppt
  
• 12/11 (aula seminari) Design and run time support of autonomic services: services retrieval, QoS negotiation and optimization, adaptive Web services. slides (student's presentation: Miraz slides)
  
• 14/11 (aula seminari) Design and run time support (cont'd). (student's presentation: Facca slides)
  
• 16/11 (aula seminari) slides Self-healing systems: definition and basic principles; approaches to self-healing processes; the PAWS approach and WS-Diamond; design methodologies.
• 21/11 (aula PT1) OGSA and WSRF frameworks. Globus toolkit. Virtual machine Monitors, VMWare and Xen. Example of grid applications: e-science applications, data-integration applications, desktop grid. slides
• 23/11 (aula 3B) The MAPE cycle of autonomic infrastructures: components and applications. E-business grid. Design and run time support of autonomic services: the PAWS approach. QoS issues, context based services. slides (students's presentations: Cavallaro slides)
• 27/11 (aula 3A) Resource allocation in Grid workflows. slides (students's presentations: Li, Poli)

The course materials will be available here at http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/PhD/AutonomicServices.html