CROWN: A Service Grid Middleware

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CROWN A Service Grid Middleware

• Jinpeng HUAI
• Vice Chancellor of Beihang University

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Whats CROWN

• CROWN
• China Research and Development environment Over
  Wide-area Network
• Jointly Funded by
• National Natural Science Foundation of China
• NSFC eScience Program
• Ministry of Science and Technology of China
• 863 Hi-Tech Program, OMII-China Project
• 973 National Basic Research Program, VCE Project
• CROWN is
• A Grid Middleware Suit
• A Prototype of China E-Science Portal
• A Research Platform of Grid Technology

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May 18, 2005 CROWN v1.0May 23, 2005 CROWN v1.0
English Version
First Preview version v0.92
v1.0RC1
v1.0RC2
Dec 23, 2005CROWN v2.0 Release
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2005
v2.0RC2
v2.0RC1
Internal update v1.5
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Internal update v2.5
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2006
CROWN Pre 3.0
CROWN v2.5.1
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2009-9-27
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App
App
App
App
App
Application Layer
Portals
Rich Client Framework
Rich Internet Application
Scheduler
Monitor
Query Info
CROWN Designer
JDT
PDE
RLDS
RLDS
RLDS
Resource Management
Eclipse
RLDS
RLDS
RLDS
Generate Services
Register to
Register to
WfS
S
S
S
Workflow Engine
MiddlewareLayer
Node Server
Node Server
Node Server
Sec
Sec
Sec
Install / Config
Install / Config
Install / Config
Resource Layer
PC
Cluster Front End
Device Host
Cluster Nodes
Devices
Resources
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What CROWN can do

• A set of tools to support the computer sharing
• An infrastructure to provide security and trust
  to the resource sharing and collaborate scenario
• Toolbox to support the application development
• A Testbed to verify the related technologies
• An approach to provide virtual computing
  environment based on VM (hypervisor)

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To support the resource sharing
Node Server
RLDS Services
Portal Monitor
CROWN Home
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To provide Security and Privacy
Identity Mapping and DAS
Trust Negotiation and Management
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To Support Application Development
CROWN Designer
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To help the verification of technologies
Bioinformatics Apps
AREM
CROWN Testbed
MDP
China Virtual Observation
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International Testing

• UK e-Science Engineering Task Force (ETF)
• CROWN System Evaluation, May 2005
• First China Grid Middleware Evaluated
• GT4 evaluated by ETF in June 2005
• 4 aspects evaluated
• General
• System Management
• User Experience
• Developer Experience
• 3 UK Universities participated
• University of Southampton (SeSC)
• Imperial College (LeSC)
• University of Newcastle (NEReSC)

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Applications - gViz

• Running on UK White Rose Grid CROWN Grid (demo
  at AHM05)

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UK OMII

• Interoperability between CROWN and OMII
• OMII-China project
• Beihang coordinator of OMII-China
• OMII-Europe project
• EU FP6 project
• Beihang one of the five Chinese partners

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Globus Alliance

• Globus / ANL
• Prof. Ian Foster
• Exchange ides with CROWN team
• MOUgrid middleware and trusted computing
• INRIA
• Web Service/ECHOGRID project

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Interoperation Demo, UK e-Science AHM 06
Cross Grid Scheduling Job Submission
Interoperation Between OMII- GridSAM / CROWN
Scheduler
News Press http//www.omii.ac.uk/projects/SS-CROW
NGrid.jsp
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Interoperation Demo, SuperComputing06
SC 2006Multi-Grids Interoperation Demo Open Grid
Forum HPC Profile Workgroup CROWN has
interoperated with Globus, OMII, UNICORE,etc
News Press http//www.gridtoday.com/grid/1109586.
html
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Interoperation Demo, SuperComputing06

• Globus
• GridSAM
• CROWN
• EGEE
• gLite CREAM
• Microsoft
• Platform
• U. of Virginia
• .Net Genesis II
• Fujitsu - Unicore

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Summary

• CROWN is a service grid middleware suit and a
  test bed for China e-Science users
• CROWN 3.0 is Focusing on VM-based Virtual
  Computing Environment
• CROWN Portal
• http//www.crown.org.cn/en

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Thank you!