Magyarul
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Head of department
- Péter Kacsuk
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 007
Phone: +36 1 329 7864
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: kacsuk.peter@sztaki.mta.hu
Homepage: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu
Deputy head
- Róbert Lovas
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 006
Phone: +36 1 279 6064, +36 1 329 7864
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: robert.lovas@sztaki.mta.hu
Generic information
Description
Main activities
MTA SZTAKI, over its part, LPDS (Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems) as a key research institute in distributed, grid and cloud technologies is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre and the Hungarian National Grid Initiative, and coordinates several European Grid projects in the 7th Framework.
The main research areas of the laboratory are the grid and cloud technologies.
Our mission is twofold in grid related research. On one hand we would like to provide efficient software development tools and high-level services together with customizable scientific gateways (WS-PGRADE/gUSE) based on workflows. On the other hand we are developing easy-to-maintain middleware solutions (SZTAKI Desktop Grid) and technologies for inter-operability (3G-Bridge) that enables cost-efficient alternative distributed, grid and cloud platforms for scientific and business applications.
Our laboratory, in association/cooperation with the departments ILAB, ITAK and DSD, is involved in the development of the SZTAKI Cloud, and takes part in more and more cloud based projects. Our cloud computing group is focusing on research related to the field of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based cloud systems. The main goal of our cloud research is to make our previously evolved products and services to be available for cloud-based executing in a scalable and transparent way.
Main research areas
- grid computing, especially Desktop Grids
- cloud systems
- interoperability between cloud and grid systems
- resource brokering in cloud systems
- scientific gateways for grid and cloud systems
- workflow based IT solutions
Main achievements
LPDS has participated in national and international grid research projects since 2000 with outstanding results in the area of Grid middleware and in the development of high-level user interfaces. In this field an important result is the WS-PGRADE/gUSE Portal (continuously developed), made for to access grid and cloud systems through a portal in a convenient and user-friendly way.
- Providing IT based solutions for more effective exploitation of our resources
Other important development of the laboratory in the grid research field is the SZTAKI Desktop Grid (SZDG). The goal of SZDG is to provide a solution to exploit the spare capacities of home PCs, or computers located at different sites of a company or an institute. A desktop grid can interconnect a large number of distributed resources to solve complex scientific applications, allowing anyone to contribute to national and international science projects with their PCs.
- Extending resource from the cloud
In the cloud-based research field we have two closed and two ongoing projects. S-CUBE is a service-based system that solves the fragmentation of the research done by different scientific groups. The goal of EDGI was to develop a middleware between clouds and grids in order to make the cloud system able to help the grid in dynamic resource brokering. The ongoing SCI-BUS project performs application-specific portals for the different fields of science that let the users to access distributed computing infrastructures in a transparent way. Within the SZTAKI Cloud our aim is to adapt the gUSE/WS-PGRADE Portal (used in several European grids) to cloud and make it scalable.
- Knowledge transfer, supporting education
Since 2004, with national and international trainings, LPDS provides knowledge transfer and targets new users from industry as well as from science. LPDS organized and hosted several grid and cloud summer schools and is very active in undergraduate and postgraduate education. Personnel of the laboratory conduct regular lectures/classes at graduate and postgraduate levels at universities ELTE, OE, and BME. The laboratory is the founding member of the International Desktop Grid Federation.
International and EU-s projects
- Ongoing projects
SCI-BUS (Coordinator: LPDS)
IDGF-SP (Coordinator: LPDS)
ER-flow
EGI-InSPIRE
agINFRA
GLOBAL excursion
- Recently closed projects
EDGI (Coordinator: LPDS)
DEGISCO (Coordinator: LPDS)
SHIWA (Coordinator: LPDS)
EDGeS (Coordinator: LPDS)
S-CUBE
ETICS-2
Main services
- Public WS-PGRADE/gUSE Portal
- SZTAKI Desktop Grid
- Grid Application Support Centre (GASuC) - The centre consists of grid researchers, grid tool builders and grid application developers. The team has long running experience in porting applications onto cluster and grid environments.
Main products
- gUSE: grid and cloud User Support Enviroment
- DCI Bridge
- SZTAKI Desktop Grid
- 3G-Bridge
- GBAC
- MetaBroker
- GenWrapper
- P-GRADE Grid portal
More information about the laboratory:
Staff
- Gábor Bacsó
- Address: 1132 Budapest Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 028
Phone: +36 1 279 6056
E-mail: bacso.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu
- Ákos Balaskó
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 009
Phone: +36 1 279 6065
E-mail: akos.balasko@sztaki.mta.hu
- Zoltán Farkas
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Mail address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 019
Phone: +36 1 329 7864
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: zoltan.farkas@sztaki.mta.hu
- Márk Gergely
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 025
Phone: +36 1 279 6864
E-mail: gergely.mark@sztaki.mta.hu
- Tibor Gottdank
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 030
Phone: +36 1 279 6076
E-mail: gottdank.tibor@sztaki.mta.hu
- Ákos Hajnal
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 030
Phone: +36 1 279 6076
E-mail: hajnal.akos@sztaki.mta.hu
- Gábor Herman
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 019
Phone: +36 1 279 6007
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: ghermann@sztaki.mta.hu
- Krisztián Karóczkai
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 027
Phone: +36 1 279 6073
E-mail: krisztian.karoczkai@sztaki.mta.hu
- Attila Kertész
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 009.
Phone: +36 1 279 6065
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: kertesz.attila@sztaki.mta.hu
Homepage: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~keratt
- Péter Kotcauer
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 025
Phone: +36 1 279 6067
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: kotcauer.peter@sztaki.mta.hu
- József Kovács
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 010
Phone: +36 1 279 6066
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: kovacs.jozsef@sztaki.mta.hu
- Miklós Kozlovszky
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 26
Phone: +36 1 279 6067
Fax: +3613297864
E-mail: kozlovszky.miklos@sztaki.mta.hu
- Réka Mária Makkos
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 006
Phone: +36 1 279 6064, +36 1 279 6809, +36 1 329 7864
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: makkos.reka@sztaki.mta.hu
- Attila Marosi
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 020
Phone: +36 1 279 6072
E-mail: marosi.attila@sztaki.mta.hu
- István Márton
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 027
Phone: +36 1 279 6073
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: marton.istvan@sztaki.mta.hu
- Zsolt Németh
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 009
Phone: +36 1 279 6065
E-mail: nemeth.zsolt@sztaki.mta.hu
- Tamás Pintér
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 028
Phone: +36 1 279 6056
E-mail: pinter.tamas@sztaki.mta.hu
- Kitti Varga
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 029
Phone: +36 1 279 6075
E-mail: varga.kitti@sztaki.mta.hu
- Ádám Visegrádi
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 029
Phone: +36 1 279 6075
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: visegradi.adam@sztaki.mta.hu
- Sándor Ács
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 025
Phone: +36 1 279 6084
E-mail: acs.sandor@sztaki.mta.hu
Students
- Csaba Krányecz
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 020
Phone: +36 1 279 6072
Fax: +36 1 329 7864
E-mail: kranyecz.csaba@sztaki.mta.hu
- Nikolett Varga
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 025
Phone: +36 1 279 6084
E-mail: varga.nikolett@sztaki.mta.hu
On leave
- Gábor Kecskeméti
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Room number: VH 025
E-mail: kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu, kecskemeti@sztaki.hu
- Ágnes Szeberényi
- Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.
Mail address: 1111 Budapest, Kende utca 13-17.
Room number: VH fsz. 29
Phone: +36 1 279 6075
E-mail: Agnes.Szeberenyi@cern.ch, szeberenyi.agnes@sztaki.mta.hu
Important publications
2013.
2011.
- SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience
- Authors: Prnjat, Ognjen; Balaz, Antun; Vudragovic, Dusan; Liabotis, Ioannis; Sener, Cevat; Marovic, Branko; Kozlovszky, Miklós; Neagu, Gabriel
Editor: C. Lin, S. C.; Yen, E.
Date: 2011.
- Parameter sweep job submission to clouds
- Authors: Kacsuk, Péter; Marosi, Attila; Kozlovszky, Miklós; Ács, Sándor; Farkas, Zoltán
Editor: Cafaro, M.; Aloisio, G.
Date: 2011.
- EDGeS bridge technologies to interconnect service and desktop grids
- Authors: Kacsuk, Péter; Farkas, Zoltán; Balaton, Zoltán
Editor: Davoli, F.; Meyer, N.; Pugliese, R.; Zappatore, S.
Date: 2011.
- Integrating service and Desktop Grids at middleware and application level
- Authors: Kacsuk, Péter
Editor: Foster, Ian; Gentzsch, Wolfgang; Grandinetti, Lucio; Joubert, Gerhard R.
Date: 2011.
2010.
- SZTAKI desktop grid: adapting clusters for desktop grids
- Authors: Marosi, Attila; Balaton, Zoltán; Kacsuk, Péter; Drótos, Dániel
Editor: Davoli, F.; Meyer, N.; Pugliese, R.; Zappatore, S.
Date: 2010.
- Virtual appliances: a way to provide automatic service deployment
- Authors: Kecskeméti, Gábor; Kacsuk, Péter; Delaitre, Thierry; Terstyánszki, Gábor
Editor: Davoli, F.; Meyer, N.; Pugliese, R.; Zappatore, S.
Date: 2010.
- From grid islands to a World Wide Grid
- Authors: Kacsuk, Péter; Kiss, Tamás
Editor: Davoli, F.; Meyer, N.; Pugliese, R.; Zappatore, S.
Date: 2010.
- Job scheduling in hierarchical desktop grids
- Authors: Farkas, Zoltán; Marosi, Attila; Kacsuk, Péter
Editor: Davoli, F.; Meyer, N.; Pugliese, R.; Zappatore, S.
Date: 2010.