European Distributed Supercomputing Network An EUwide supercomputing facility

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European Distributed Supercomputing NetworkAn
EU-wide supercomputing facility

• Ed Seidel
• Albert-Einstein-Institut, Germany

Gabrielle Allen Albert-Einstein-Institut,
Germany Jarek Nabrzyski PSNC, Poland Dozens of
researchers across the EU
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EU Computational Grid Needs not Met

• Grand Challenge Problems abound
• Great scientific and engineering talent in EU,
  want to keep it here!
• Require large communities, Grids for large scale
  problems
• Many large Grid projects now (DataGrid, GridLab,
  etc)
• Many EU scientific training/research programs now
  beginning
• But
• No EU facilities, No Collaborative
  Infrastructure, No HPC Training
• Weak Community
• Meanwhile
• US PACI program, DOE, NASA 20 years, now
  TeraGrid
• Japan Earth Simulator, and US Emergency
  Response
• Result?
• EU science and engineering do toy problems, fall
  behind
• Many EU countries simply cut off from modern
  science
• No facilities to deploy, test, mature Grid
  technologies

Question Where is Europe?? Answer Best
of EU will soon be 2 orders of magnitude
behind all US researchers (including those
from Arkansas, West Virginia, etc)
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Our Vision for an EDSN Facility

• Science and Engineering Expertise Centers
• Application Areas (Climate Modeling,
  Astrophysics, Bio-Informatics, Aerospace,
  Particle Physics), some co-located with
  Computation Centers
• Sheparding/building communities across Europe
• Present science/engineering calculations require
  TB/Tflop/sec, but just scratching the surface!
  Need much more!
• Enabling new science in EU, not catchup
• Computational Science Drivers
• Grid Software drivers provide raison detre,
  steer development!
• Visualization centers, data handling
• Distributed Center, Connected by Ultra-Highspeed
  Network
• 2 large supernodes in East and West, smaller
  elsewhere
• Partnerships with existing centers, networks, US,
  Asia, etc
• EU training, support, focal point for computation
  in less developed parts