GPN Grid Great Plains Network Grid Computing Initiative

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GPN GridGreat Plains Network Grid Computing
Initiative

• Amy W. Apon, Ph.D.
• December 10, 2004

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Great Plains Network Consortium
MIDnet
plus UALR, ASU, KSU, WU, ESU, UNO, Peter
Kiewit, Creighton, OSU, Tulsa, UMSL, UMKC, UMR,
NDSU, SD Mines Tech
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What is Grid Computing?

• Software for
• Authorized sharing of resources on the Internet
• Login once and have secure access to resources
  everywhere
• Easy access to data, applications, computing
  resources
• Appropriate network and computer infrastructure
• Coordinated problem solving within virtual
  organizations

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Grid Example Online Access to Scientific
Instruments
Advanced Photon Source
wide-area dissemination
desktop VR clients with shared controls
real-time collection
archival storage
tomographic reconstruction
DOE X-ray grand challenge ANL, USC/ISI, NIST,
U.Chicago
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What can grid do for Arkansas and GPN?

• Enhance education
• A catalyst to significantly improve competitive
  research and economic growth
• The National Association of State Universities
  and Land-Grant Colleges (NASALGC) estimates
• 5 to 1 return on research investment
• For every new job created on campus, 1.6 new jobs
  are created in the community.
• In Texas, an investment of 10 million in Grid
  computing is expected to result in a net gain of
  more than 21,000 jobs paying 486 million in
  annual wages and salaries.

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What can grid do for Arkansas and GPN?

• Enhance education
• A catalyst to significantly improve competitive
  research and economic growth
• Improve the responsiveness of the nation in
  matters of homeland security

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• For the life of me, I cannot understand why the
  terrorists have not attacked our food supply,
  because it is so easy to do
• Tommy Thompson, outgoing Secretary of Health and
  Human Services, December 3, 2004

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GPN Grid Strategic Application Real Time Water
Resource Monitoring

• like the National Weather Service,
• only applied to water resources
• Utilize standard Grid tools and protocols
• to build a real-time sensor, analysis, and
• notification Grid

• Leverage the research in Decision Support Systems
  (DSS) that are currently
• being developed for watersheds in Arkansas
  (shown in yellow)
• Project Leaders Are Dr. Indrajeet Chaubey, Dr.
  Marty Matlock,
• and Dr. Brian Haggard, UA Biological and
  Agricultural Engineering
• Figures courtesy of Dr. Ralph Davis, Director,
  Arkansas Water Resources

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Recall Online Access to Scientific Instruments
Advanced Photon Source
wide-area dissemination
desktop VR clients with shared controls
real-time collection
archival storage
tomographic reconstruction
DOE X-ray grand challenge ANL, USC/ISI, NIST,
U.Chicago
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Real Time Water Resource Monitoring Grid

• Sensor stations provide data on stream flow and
  water quality
• The data is uploaded to USGS via satellite
• The data is retrieved in real time and allow DSS
  models to be functionally updated
• The real-time Grid will integrate data,
  information, physical simulation models and other
  economic analysis for coordinated problem solving
• Identify alternatives for solving specific
  watershed problems
• Provide alerts in case of water toxins,
  pollution, flooding,

Location of U.S. Geological Survey Gauging
Stations in Beaver Watershed
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Potential Research Areas

• Geosciences and spatial modeling
• High performance physics
• Bioinformatics
• Engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Computational chemistry
• Climate modeling
• Others

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Impact on Private Sector

• Agribusiness
• Bioscience
• Education
• Aerospace
• Manufacturing
• Financial services
• Telecommunications
• Others

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What does it take to build a GPN grid?

• A jump start to catch up with the rest of the
  country

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What does it take to build a GPN grid?

• Organizational leadership and training within the
  GPN consortium (600K)
• Provide training on Grid tools and protocols
• Help to set best practice for security, trust,
  sharing
• Help to plan strategic application areas
• Implementers at Arkansas and within virtual
  organizations in GPN (2.4M)
• Improved network access and some computer
  hardware (2M)

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• Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
  funded by the state of Louisiana
• Proposed LOTA ring Arkansas state funding
  anticipated
• Loop through University of Arkansas about 1M
  of this request
• Great Plains Network loop if you want to make
  a really big difference,
• (ideas from Dr. Bob Zimmerman and David
  Merrifield, Computing Services)

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Arkansas is poised to be a pivotal player
bridging GPN and SURA
Testbed Grid
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What One Year Will Fund

• Testbed grids developed in three strategic areas
  in GPN institutions
• Geoscience (water resources)
• Bioinformatics (perhaps with BIRN)
• Physics (perhaps with ATLAS)
• Development of strategic grid-based partnerships
  with industry
• Proposals for grid development in all strategic
  areas
• Network infrastructure improvements to enhance
  research competitiveness, long-term economic
  development, job creation
• Best practice policies established for security,
  trust, and sharing
• Coordination, education and dissemination among
  GPN institutions to inter-operate, share and
  utilize regional grid-related resources

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GPN Grid

• Enhance education within the region
• A catalyst to significantly improve competitive
  research and commerce in Arkansas and in the
  region
• Improve the responsiveness of the nation in
  matters of homeland security.