The Swiss Grid InitiativeThe Swiss Grid Initiative

Context and Initiation Work by CSCSContext and Initiation Work by CSCS

Peter Kunszt, CSCSPeter Kunszt, CSCS

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OverviewOverview

CSCS’s motivation and involvement in Grid projects

Swiss Grid Initiative Why having an initiative? Definition of the initiative’s main goals Mission Statement Organisation: Elements

Myself Education: PhD in Theoretical Physics (Lattice QCD) Building the Science Archive for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

(1997 – 2001, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore) Leader of the Data Management Middleware Development

effort in the EU DataGrid et EGEE-1 (2001 – 2006, CERN) Leader of CSCS Grid Team, Self-declared Manager of the Swiss Grid Initiative (CSCS)

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CSCS: Center for Excellent Support and CSCS: Center for Excellent Support and Center for Excellence in Scientific ComputingCenter for Excellence in Scientific Computing

Mission: Center for Excellent Support Provide leading-class services for scientific computing to the

Swiss research community. Provide, develop and promote technical and scientific services

for the Swiss research community on the fields of high-performance and high-throughput computing.

CSCS is a scientific and service centre and quality is the overriding criteria guiding all its choices.

CSCS participates in international partnerships and provides through these a broader spectrum of computation facilities to its users.

Mission: Center of Excellence in Scientific Computing Pioneering new information technologies Collaborating with domestic and foreign researchers Carrying out its own research in scientific computing.

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CSCS: Diamond ProfileCSCS: Diamond Profile

Computing Facility Profile:High Capability SupercomputersHigh Capability Clusters

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Interest in Grid and Collaborative Interest in Grid and Collaborative ComputingComputing

Embedding of the CSCS resources Accessibility of CSCS resources by our users through the

user’s local resources Complement supercomputing resources with a set of well-

maintained clusters to perform pre- and postprocessing tasks Necessary for collaborative science DataGrid aspect: share data with user’s home institute and

other centers

Optimal usage of resources Many requests for cycles are from applications that would be

better suited for the Grid Need to have a well-working national Grid for such applications

as they cannot all be served by CSCS

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CSCS’s Involvement in Grid ProjectsCSCS’s Involvement in Grid Projects

EGEE and LCG CSCS is the Swiss Tier2 for

LCG CSCS is a key partner in the

DECH federation Involved in operations,

application support, training and dissemination of EGEE in Switzerland and for all of EGEE

Swiss Bio Grid Project Management Technical Coordination Application Integration

Intelligent Scheduler System Project Management Infrastructure coordination and

support Application oriented scheduling

SEPAC Local infrastructure Coordination Application Gridification

Details will be given by the individual project presentations later today

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CSCS and the Swiss Grid InitiativeCSCS and the Swiss Grid Initiative

To set up an initiative on the national scale is in the Performance Mandate of CSCS for 2004-2007

First plan and initiation happened in 2004 by Marie-Christine Sawley

Most advancement in terms of realizing the initiative since january 2006 : hire of PK as the Manager of the Swiss Grid Initiative

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The Swiss Grid InitiativeThe Swiss Grid Initiative

Why having an Initiative?

Let’s have a few quotes from this conference

Bringing the best brains together

. . . . . . .

Communication Network

Sharing Scientific Resources

Scientific Data

e-Infrastructures in FP7 - strategye-Infrastructures in FP7 - strategy

Sharing the best scientific resources

WeatherForecast

VO

BiomedicsVO

AstrophysicsVO

Producing the best science

Mario Campolargo: e-Infrastructures in FP7 - strategyMario Campolargo: e-Infrastructures in FP7 - strategy

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Dan Atkins – Director of US NSF Office Dan Atkins – Director of US NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructureof Cyberinfrastructure

“Cyberinfrastructure-enhanced knowledge communities

offer the potential for enabling a new wave of global-scale

collaboration across multiple disciplines, geography, and

institutions. It could empower a revolution in what science

explores, how it is done, and who participates.

Realizing this potential will, however, also required a new

wave of commitment to collaboration between the

complex array of stakeholders necessary to create, deploy,

sustain, and apply cyberinfrastructure in transformative ways.

Cyberinfrastructure both enables and requires a new

wave of collaboration.”

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Grid Computing in Switzerland Grid Computing in Switzerland – High Level Goals– High Level Goals

Collaboration: Enabling Scientific DiscoveryCollaborate on common scientific interests

Build Virtual Organizations nationally and internationally

Seamless and transparent application usage, project portals

Building communities and explore synergies

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Grid Computing in Switzerland Grid Computing in Switzerland – High Level Goals– High Level Goals

Resource Sharing: Pooling of Available ResourcesOptimal usage of national resourcesPooling of available resources at research institutions

Easy access to heterogeneous resources

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Grid Computing in Switzerland Grid Computing in Switzerland – High Level Goals– High Level Goals

Coordination: Building an InfrastructureAgreements on the usage of the available resources

Coordinated support of the resourcesSharing of tools and middleware

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Grid Computing in Switzerland Grid Computing in Switzerland – High Level Goals– High Level Goals

Representation of InterestsCoordination is needed to formulate Swiss Requirements and Interests

Participation in EU and international bodiesStandardization efforts