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Grid Deployments

Saul Rioja

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The world’s grid

• Biologists are using grids to simulate thousands of molecular drug candidates on their computer.

• Earth scientists are using grids to track ozone levels using satellites.

• High energy physicists are using grids in their search for a better understanding of the universe

• Engineers are using grids to study alternative fuels, such as fusion energy.

• This information was taken from http://www.gridcafe.org/


• Artists are using grids to create complex animations for feature films.

• 25 million render hours


LEAD

• LEAD: Linked Environments for Atmospheric

Discovery

• Idea

» Collect real-time sensor data

» Model and Predict rapidly evolving phenomenon (tornadoes, hurricanes)

» Save life, property, and avoid false alarms…


LEAD• Motivation for LEAD

Each year, mesoscale weather – floods, tornadoes, hail, strong winds, lightning, and winter storms causes hundreds of deaths, routinely disrupts transportation and commerce, and results in annual economic losses > $13B.


LEAD Institutions

University of Oklahoma(K. Droegemeier, PI)

Meteorological Research and Project Coordination

University of Alabama in Huntsville

(S. Graves, PI)

Data Mining, Interchange Technologies, Semantics

UCAR/Unidata(M. Ramamurthy, PI)

Data Streaming and Distributed Storage

Indiana University(D. Gannon, PI)

Data Workflow, Orchestration, Web

Services

University of Illinois/NCSA

(R. Wilhelmson, PI)

Monitoring and Data Management

Millersville University(R. Clark, PI)

Education and Outreach

Howard University(E. Joseph, PI)

Meteorological ResearchEducation and Outreach

Colorado State University

(Chandra, PI)

Instrument Steering, Dynamic Updating

K. Droegemeier, PI


WRF and TeraGrid

• Weather Research and Forecasting(WRF)– Open source community Numerical Weather Prediction

model.– Complex to install and implement on a workstation.– Even more difficult to set up on a supercomputer.– Further complexity to link to real-time or archived data.

• TeraGrid– NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers– Large facilities to handle BIG projects.


Demostrations

• LEAD portal

• Integrated Data Viewer


CaBig

• Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid(caBIG) is a community that cooperatively develops well integrated Grid services and applications which facilitate operations, research, and interoperability within and between Cancer Centers.


caGrid Community Involvement• caGrid itself provides no real “data” or

“analysis” to caBIG™; its the enabling infrastructure which allows the community to do so

• Community members add value to the grid as applications, services, and processes (for example: shared workflows)– caGrid provides the necessary core services,

APIs, and tooling• The real “value” of the grid comes from

bringing this information to the “end user”


History of caGrid

• caGrid 1.0 - released December 2007– Production Version

• Previous releases– caGrid 1.0 Beta – July 2006– caGrid 0.5 – August 2005– caGrid Initial Prototype – July 2004

12/1/03 12/31/06

1/1/04 4/1/04 7/1/04 10/1/04 1/1/05 4/1/05 7/1/05 10/1/05 1/1/06 4/1/06 7/1/06 10/1/06

December 2006caGrid 1.0

Official Release

July 2006caGrid 1.0

Beta Release

8/31/05caGrid 0.5Release

10/7/05caGrid 0.5.1

Release

11/15/05caGrid 0.5.2

Release

1/25/06caGrid 0.5.3

Release

5/12/06caGrid 0.5.4

Release12/1/03caGrid Concept Origin

7/1/04Initial caGrid Prototype


caGrid Production Environment


caGrid Portal

caGrid 1.0 Portal: provides a visual view of services running on the infrastructure.

http://cagrid-portal.nci.nih.gov/portal/home.portal

• Another way to access the data is caArray


References• Droegemeier, K. K., & Co-Authors. (2004). {Linked

environments for atmospheric discovery (LEAD): A cyberinfrastructure for mesoscale meteorology research and education}. Journal of Information Technology.

• National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources. (2006). {caBIG Overview}.

• http://www.gridcafe.org/

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