James Williams

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Grid Development and Deployment

• James Williams
• Indiana University
• williams_at_iu.edu

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Topics to be discussed

• Motivators for Grid development
• Grid definitions and components
• Worldwide Grid efforts
• Asia-Pacific Grid efforts
• Areas for future research

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Network-enabled science and research in the 21st
century

• Science and research are becoming progressively
  more global with network-enabled world wide
  collaborative communities rapidly forming in a
  broad range of areas
• Many are based around a few expensive sometimes
  unique instruments or distributed complexes of
  sensors that produce vast amounts of data
• These global communities will carry out research
  based on this data

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Network-enabled science and research in the 21st
century

• This data will be analyzed by supercomputers and
  large computer clusters, visualized with advanced
  3-D display technology, and stored in massive or
  large data storage systems all of this will be
  distributed globally
• Note the interaction between computation, storage
  and networking

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Examples

• NSF-funded Grid Physics Networks (GriPhyN) need
  for petascale virtual data grids (i.e., capable
  of analyzing petabyte datasets)
• Compact Muon Selenoid (CMS) and A Toroidal LHC
  Apparatus (ATLAS) experiments using the Large
  Hadron Collider (LHC) located at (CERN) gt
  2.5Gbps
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave
  Observatory (LIGO) 200GB-5TB data sets needing
  2.5Gbps or greater for reasonable transfer
  times
• Collaborative video (e.g., HDTV) 20Mbps
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) gt 1Gbps

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Vision

• The vision is for this global infrastructure and
  data to be integrated into grids seamless
  global collaborative environments tailored to the
  specific needs of individual scientific
  communities

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What is a Grid?

• Persistent networked environments integrating
  geographically distributed supercomputers, large
  databases, and high-end instruments
• Coordinated resource sharing and problem solving
  in dynamic virtual organizations

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Key Grid concept

• A scalable, seamless extension of your access
  point
• through pervasive networks to
• a set of resources tied together by a set of
  ubiquitous common distributed services

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A scalable, seamless extension of your access
point through pervasive networks to a set of
resources tied together by common services.
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Grid component development efforts

• Development of core Grid software - Globas
  (http//www.globus.org/
• Cluster computing - Condor (http//www.cs.wisc.ed
  u/condor/)
• AP effort - EcoGrid (http//www.csse.monash.edu.au
  /rajkumar/ecogrid/

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Worldwide Grid activities

• United States - Global Grid Forum
  (http//www.globalgridforum.org)
• Europe(http//www.eu-datagrid.org/)
• Science specific Partical Physics Data Grid
  (http//www.ppdg.net/)
• Science specific GriPhyN(http//www.griphyn.org/
  )
• US Federal Agency specific NASA Information
  Power Grid(http//www.ipg.nasa.gov/)

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Asia-Pacific Grid activities

• Global Grid Forum participation
• Grid workshop planning for Fall 2001
• APAN Grid Working Group (grid_at_apan.net)
• TransPAC Grid Web pages

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Areas for future research

• Building the middleware, protocols, interoperable
  communications libraries (Grid core operating
  system)
• Building resource management (Grid NOC)
• Building the global social/economic
  infrastructure (Grid organization)
• Building the global physical infrastructure
  (Global grid)

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The Grid book

• The Grid Blueprint for a New Computing
  Infrastructure, ed. Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman,
  Morgan Kaufmann 1999.

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Useful links

• Global Grid Forum(http//www.globalgridforum.org)
  
• Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID
  Infoware)(http//www.gridcomputing.com/)
• EnterTheGrid(http//www.hoise.com/enterthegrid/)
• NASAs Information Power Grid(http//www.nas.nasa
  ,gov/About/IPG/ipg.htm)
• European Data Grid(http//www.eu-datagrid.org/)
• GriPhyN / ATLAS in NY Times(http//www.nytimes.co
  m/2000/09/28/technology/28NEXT.html)

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Grid Development and Deployment

• James Williams
• Indiana University
• williams_at_iu.edu