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Grid-enabled Remote Instrumentation with
Distributed Control and Computation (GRIDCC)A
realtime interactive GRID to integrate
instruments, computational and information
resources widely spread on a fast WANProject
Coordinator INFN
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Main Aims

• The design, realization and deployment of an
  interactive GRID able to integrate
• the interactive and real-time management (process
  control, remote operation - tele-presence -, data
  acquisition) of remote instrumentations (e.g.
  temperature probes or an array of telescopes)
  distributed over a geographical network
• The distributed computational resources needed to
  the real time data processing and storage
• The graphical visualization of the data acquired
  or analyzed.
• Real-time analysis of patterns produced by the
  grid enabled instruments to provide on-line
  diagnostics of their functioning and possible
  automatic actions to fix the problems.

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Application Fields

• Experimental Sciences
• Take control of a experiment from a distance
  (remote operation and control, data taking and
  data analysis)
• High Energy, Nuclear and Solid State Physics
• Electronic Microscopes
• Telescopes
• Monitoring and analysis of the territory (e.g.
  disaster analysis)
• Meteorology
• Geophysics
• Bio-medics
• Integration of remote operation, data taking,
  data analysis and data storage of sophisticated
  instruments like
• Mammography
• Pet, TAC, NMR etc.
• Industrial Applications
• widely distributed controls
• Electrical power grid
• Public transportation

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GRIDCC Layout
Virtual Instrument Grid Services
Farm Services
Storage Services
User Interface
Diagnostic Service
Virtual Control Room
Test Bed Grid Infrastructure
Problem Solver Service
User Interface
Data Mining Tool
Virtual Control Room
User Interface
Knowledge based Services
Video Conf. Chat Service
Security login Service
Information Service (Monitor)
Work Flow Engine Service
Job Control
Resource Service
Supporting Services
Cooperative Environment
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Working Package List

• WP1 System Architecture Overall system
  architecture. Definition of the QoS parameters
  needed for a network infrastructure where real
  time and interactive services are used.
• WP2 Real-time and Interactive web services
  middleware Extending web service based
  middleware into interactive and real time
  computing.
• WP3 Grid-Enabled Instrumentation - Development
  of generic Virtual Instrument Service (VIS).
  Development of the all Supporting Services needed
  to catalog, configure, monitoring, analyze
  errors, fixing automatically problems and finally
  read out the Grid-enabled instrument resources.
• WP4 Brokering access to existing Grid resources
  - Controlling access to gridified resources
  according agreed levels of service and providing
  mechanisms for determining and organising complex
  workflows.
• WP5 Cooperative Environment - Design and
  development of a multiuser cooperative
  environment (i.e. a groupware software) that will
  be a common component of the various GRIDCC
  applications.
• WP6 Integration and Pilot Applications - System
  integration and deployment of a small number of
  pilot applications on existing Grid testbeds.
• WP7 Information dissemination and exploitation
  To ensure that the results of the project are
  widely disseminated and that the results are
  exploited by existing (e.g. EGEE) and future Grid
  development projects
• WP8 Management - To ensure all objectives are
  realised and all deliverables are completed
  according to schedule and within budget.
  Management and resolution of conflict within the
  project, including the redefinition of WP
  deliverables. Protection and exploitation of the
  IP arising from the project.

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Pilot Applications (I)

• Power Grid
• In electrical utility networks (or power grids),
  the introduction of very large numbers of
  embedded power generators often using renewable
  energy sources, creates a severe challenge for
  utility companies. Existing computer software
  technology for monitoring and control is not
  scalable and cannot provide a solution for the
  many thousands of generators that are
  anticipated. GridCC technology would allow the
  generators to participate in a VO, and
  consequently to be monitored and scheduled in a
  cost-effective manner
• Meteorology
• Ensemble Forecasting has been used at large
  meteorological centers worldwide (e.g. ECMWF,
  NOAA/NCEP, UK-Met Office, METEO France) with
  promising results. However Ensemble Limited
  Area Forecasting is still in its infancy. The
  main reason for this is the demanding
  requirements for computing resources. These
  resources are nowadays both available and
  manageable on the GRID. With real-time
  extensions, Limited-Area Forecasting can become a
  common tool.
• Analysis of neurophysiological data
• An exciting medical application of real-time
  operations and analysis on the Grid comes from
  the diagnosis of migraines. Migraine is an
  incapacitating disorder of neurovascular origin,
  which consists of attacks of headache,
  accompanied by autonomic and possibly
  neurological symptoms. The attacks, if left
  untreated, typically last from 4 to 72 hours.
  During acute migraine, sensitisation phenomena
  occur. These lower the pain threshold at
  peripheral and central levels. An estimated 4-5
  of the world population suffers chronic daily
  headache. Prompt pharmacological treatment can
  stop sensitisation, thus avoiding the chronicity
  of the illness, while an incorrect analgesic drug
  overuse may by itself precipitate migraine. Since
  chronicity is the main cause of invalidity it is
  important to find the correct treatment and
  implement it, especially on patients with
  frequent attacks.

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Pilot Applications (II)

• Device Farm for the Support of Cooperative
  Distributed Measurements in Telecommunications
  and Networking Laboratories
• Focusing on the telecommunication systems and
  networking area, the goal of this application is
  to design and implement a device farm
  demonstrator. The demonstrator will be based on
  the GRIDCC features that will allow the necessary
  physical (or software-emulated) resources that
  are involved in a specific experiment to be found
  and cooperatively used independently of their
  location.
• High-Energy Physics control and monitor of
  experiments
• This application involves the use of the Grid in
  a real-time environment to control and monitor
  remote large-scale detectors. This application
  will make use of a High-Energy Physics (HEP)
  experiment, the CMS detector which is currently
  under construction at the future LHC collider at
  CERN. CMS consists of 20,000,000 electronics
  channels that will be read out by a complex
  distributed data acquisition (DAQ) system feeding
  a large processor farm charged with filtering an
  input rate of up to 100 kHz down to only 100 Hz
  of physics events. The DAQ system involves a
  very large number (a few thousand) of intelligent
  modules and computers, data throughputs of 100
  Gbytes/s. These characteristics, along with the
  selectivity of one event in 1,000, are
  unprecedented in the field, and introduce
  requirements on the control and monitor of the
  experiments data-taking.
• Geo-hazards Remote Operation of Geophysical
  Monitoring Network
• Electromagnetic techniques have found a wide
  spectrum of significant applications in the
  framework of geophysical explorations. Nowadays,
  new tomographic techniques can be applied to
  obtain high-resolution electromagnetic images
  of the interior of the earth interior at
  different scales. The use of active and passive
  electromagnetic techniques, the possibility to
  select multiple sources and multi-frequency
  energizing systems discloses the geometry of
  complex geological environments (fault systems,
  landslides, etc.) in depth. It is now possible to
  obtain in-field temporal sequences of 3D
  electromagnetic images (4D tomography). The
  ability to obtain real-time 4D high-resolution
  images of subsoil pave the way for a wide
  spectrum of applications in geo-hazard and
  environmental monitoring. Some notable examples
  of such applications include the monitoring of
  fluid and gas migration processes in volcanic
  areas, the monitoring of diffusion processes of
  contaminant plumes and the study of groundwater
  circulation system in landslide bodies.

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Pilot Application III

• (Far) Remote Operation of Accelerator Facility
• Far remote operation of an accelerator facility
  (i.e. the Elettra Control Room in Italy)
  involves the planning of accelerator operations,
  the maintenance of the accelerator and its
  troubleshooting, the repair of delicate
  equipment, understanding and pushing performance
  limitations, performing studies, performing
  commissioning and set ups and routine
  operations. All these activities are based on
  large amounts of information, which are at
  present accessible only at the accelerator site.
  Remote control of an accelerator facility has the
  potential of revolutionising the mode of
  operation and the degree of exploitation of large
  experimental physics facilities. Far remote
  operation combines elements of immersive (i.e.
  providing the feeling to be present at the remote
  location) communication and cooperation
  technology. This includes video and audio
  presence, allowing the simultaneous operation of
  the same instruments, having access to the same
  accelerator controls and the relevant data,
  meeting easily and spontaneously and providing
  full awareness of the presence of the
  collaborators.

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Partecipants and requested funds
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Stato della negoziazione

• Buon giudizio tecnico della proposta
• I Referee esterni hanno proposto un finanziamento
  di 4 MEuro contro i 4.7 richiesti
• Primo incontro con la commissione fatto il 8
  marzo
• Vari problemi di forma nella proposta tecnica
• Problemi di sostanza nel come fare il taglio del
  budget
• Referee esterni propongono un taglio mirato del
  25 su wp4 e wp6
• Noi vogliamo farlo un po piúuniforme in quanto
  wp3 e wp6 sono il core del progetto (e INFN ha
  puntato tutto su questi)
• Secondo incontro il 23 marzo