Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Program

Grid computing optimizes IT resource management by pooling computational resources to create a unified virtual computing environment that abstracts away resource boundaries present in traditional computing infrastructures. The Enterprise Grid Architect certification course covers grid technology from practical industrial perspectives, as well as from essential foundation concepts.

In the virtualized environment enabled by grid-based systems, computational load can be transparently distributed, resulting in dependable, consistent, pervasive and inexpensive access to these resources on an on-demand, as-needed basis. Because of its significant potential to scale IT environments, grid computing is becoming the architectural strategy of choice for enterprises across industry and governments. Grid computing is also an increasingly prevalent architectural strategy for implementing modern application interconnection mechanisms such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Targeted at experienced software and systems architects who need to understand and take advantage of modern application grid technologies, the certification is awarded by Singapore Management University (SMU) and supported by Oracle Singapore and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). The content of this pioneering certification programme is based on curriculum contributed by SMU and Oracle University.

This certification course has been endorsed by IDA under the CITREP programme and is a joint collaboration between SMU and Oracle Singapore. It has also been approved by the National Grid Office as an elective under the Grid Computing Competency Certification (GCCC). Successful participants will be awarded four credit points under the "Grid Architecture (Advanced)" category for the Grid Architect Track of the GCCC Part 2 .

Module 1 - Introduction to Grid Computing
What is grid computing; why use grid computing. Peak load provisioning, resource sharing and management, logical and physical views of a grid-enabled system. Definitions of terms: virtualization, “on-demand”, adaptive enterprise, and utility computing. The virtualization stack and virtual resource pools.

Module 2 - Application Grids
Logical and physical manifestation of the MVC design pattern. Distributed applications and scaling issues associated with distributed applications. Introduction to grid computing as an elegant solution. Grid case study. Overview of Globus Toolkit with mini-lab.

Module 3 - Creating Application Grids (Lab exercises)
What application grids are: clustering, application server and database grids. Grid management using the Grid Controller. Techno-business issues in the design and deployment of application grids. Lab sessions based on Oracle 10g suite of tools: creating an application server cluster and deploying grid agents. Deployment of a grid-enabled J2EE application. More information on Lab exercises.

4. Who Should Attend
This certification course is targeted at experienced software and systems architects who need to understand and exploit modern application grid technologies. Applicants will be vetted by SMU/Oracle to determine suitability for this course. All participants who complete this course successfully will be certified as Enterprise Grid Architects by SMU.

Anindya Datta, Visiting Associate Professor, SMU. Anindya is a technologist with significant experience in both academia and industry. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, and was Associate Professor at Georgia Tech before embarking on a successful entrepreneurial career where he commercialized his research in the context of a venture-funded software company that he eventually sold to a large global technology organization. Anindya is widely recognized as having contributed fundamentally to a few of the key ideas in the areas of database and application systems. In his most recent work, he has also contributed heavily to the evolution of application performance and virtualization technologies, including pioneering the area of application layer object storage that is now widely recognized as a core functionality of any object-oriented application, as well as a core technology enabler of application virtualization mechanisms. This work was performed at Georgia Tech, from where Anindya started Chutney Technologies to commercialize this work. Chutney was subsequently backed by tier-1 VCs, contributed to the development of the area of application virtualization and was subsequently folded into a large Bay-area technological organization.

Mohit Singh, Core Technology Team Leader, Oracle University . Mohit has over 12 years of experience as trainer, consultant and developer with Oracle technologies. His expertise includes Oracle Database, TimesTen, Application Server, Developer Suite, Collaboration Suite and Fusion Middleware products. Mohit was the first instructor to deliver Oracle Application Server 10g training to customers in Asia-Pacific and has handled customer engagements across different Oracle technologies in Asia Pacific including POSCO (South Korea), SSS (Philippines), Asian Development Bank (Philippines), Royal Brunei Airlines (Brunei), Brunei Shell (Brunei), NIC (India), DOT (India), ITE (Singapore), Citibank (Singapore), GIC (Singapore), GE Life (Singapore), Ministry of Education (Australia), CISRA (Australia) and Hutchison (Australia). Mohit has a degree in accountancy.

Mok Heng Ngee, Instructional Staff, SMU. Mok supports this course and contributes to the preparation of course materials. His academic interests include enterprise integration and architecture, and his technical expertise spans both the Java and .NET worlds. Mok was accorded Most Valuable Professional status by Microsoft, and is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect. He has a M.Sc. in Communications Software and Networks.

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Classes will be arranged on an ad-hoc basis when there are 5 or more interested participants.

4 days

9:00am to 5:00pm

School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
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S$4000 (Eligible participants may get up to 50% subsidy under CITREP).
Amount excludes 5% GST.