M.C.A. R/WE DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2016
Computer Applications
GRID COMPUTING
(2012 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. What are the key issues of grid computing?
2. What is the difference between P2P and grid computing?
3. Give any two examples for news scientific and
engineering applications enabled by grid environments.
4. What are the major phases in computing and
communications?
5. What is the use of data grid?
6. What is SOAP?
7. Write the objectives of OGSA.
8. List out the properties of grid services.
9. Give any two security considerations.
10. What are the platform services provided by OGSA?
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Part B 5 25)
Answer all the questions.
11. Describe the different types of grid.
Or
Write a note on virtualization.
12. Describe the evolution of grids over time.
Or
What are the types of tools available and explain
them briefly?
13. Describe the role of scheduler functional block.
Or
Write about web services resource framework.
14. Describe the benefits of OGSI standard.
Or
Write the features of SOAP.
15. Describe the security requirements.
Or
Describe the interfaces that can be used to construct
a variety of VO service structures.
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Part C 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Explain the potential applications and financial benefits
of grid computing.
17. Describe the challenges of grid computing.
18. Describe the service view of grid computing.
19. Draw the structure of OGSA architected services and
explain.
20. What are the principal elements of OGSA and explain?