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ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010

International Grid Infrastructures Current activities in Armenia

H. Astsatryan

Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems,National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia


Outline

• eInfrastructures and Grids

• Recent Projects in Armenia

• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure

• Local Services and International Involvement

• Future Activities


Outline







Grid Definition: Word Meaning

The term Grid computing or Grid

suggest a computing paradigm similar

to an electric power grid - a variety of

resources contribute power into a

shared "pool" for many consumers to

access on an as-needed basis.


Grid Components

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EVisualization

User

Access

Suprecomputers,clusters

Internet, networks

Experiments, sensors, etc..


Brief History of Computing

• 1980: "DOS addresses

only 1 Megabyte of RAM

because we cannot

imagine any applications

needing more." -Microsoft

on the development of

DOS.

• 1981: "640k ought to be

enough for anybody." -

Bill Gates

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MIPS

Series2


eInfrastructures

Old World New World

Static

Silo

Physical

Manual

Application

Dynamic

Shared

Virtual

Automated

Service

Enabling large-scale innovative research to be conducted through collaboration of distributed teams of scientist across the European Research Area (ERA) paves the way towards a long-term vision of a sustainable, transparent, ubiquitous electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) open to a wide range of scientific user communities providing the development of Information Society in Europe.


e-Infrastructure: Reference Model




e-Infrastructure:GÉANT Topology

GÉANT is the pan-European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.





293 sites56 countries87,000 CPUs5 PetaBytes>15,000 users>150 VOs>100,000 jobs/day

ArcheologyAstronomyAstrophysicsCivil ProtectionComp. ChemistryEarth SciencesFinanceFusionGeophysicsHigh Energy PhysicsLife SciencesMultimediaMaterial Sciences…


e-Infrastructure: Perspectives

International Monitoring Systems


e-Infrastructures: Grid Projects

ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-

HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBI CroatiaIIAP-NAS-RA ArmeniaGRENA Georgia

Third Party ssociate universities / research centres


Applicationsimproved services for academia,

industry and the public

Support Actionskey complementary functions

Infrastructuresgeographical or thematic coverage

International Grid Projects



Standards

OGF


e-Infrastructures: Situation

• Need to prepare permanent, common Grid infrastructure• Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure

independent of short project funding cycles• Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid

Infrastructures (NGIs)• Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide

range of scientific disciplines


Outline







Armenian National Grid Initiative

• Creation of Armenian Grid Joint Research

Unit. Agreement signed in September 2007

• Armenian National Grid Initiative

Foundation, Kick-off meeting 31 October

2008. Juridical Status is in process

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♦State Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science ♦National Academy of Sciences♦State Engineering University of Armenia ♦Yerevan State University ♦Yerevan Physics Institute after A. Alikhanian ♦Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences♦Armenian e-Science Foundation

The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338


Recent Projects

ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-

HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBI CroatiaIIAP-NAS-RA ArmeniaGRENA Georgia

Third Party / JRU mechanism usedassociate universities / research centres

GRNET.gr

SEE-GRID-SCI partnership

MTA SZTAKI .hu

IPP .bg

ICI .ro

TUBITAK.tr

UPT.al

UKIM.mk

UoBL.ba

RBI.hr

UOB.rs

RENAM.md

UOM.me

GRENA.ge

IIAP-NAS-RA.am

The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338


State Target Project

• Deployment of Armenian National Grid Infrastructure

Current Implementations:

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather

prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. The

effort to develop WRF has been a collaborative partnership, principally among the National Center for

Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Forecast Systems

Laboratory, the Air Force Weather Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and

the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system has been designed to approach air quality

as a whole by including state-of-the-science capabilities for modeling multiple air quality issues, including

tropospheric ozone, fine particles, toxics, acid deposition, and visibility degradation. CMAQ is an active

open-source development project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that consists of a suite of

programs for conducting air quality model simulations.

Recent Projects


Project A-1451(2007-2009)

• Development of Scientific Computing Grid on the Base of Armcluster for South Caucasus Region

Participants

• Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan State University; State Engineering

University of Armenia; Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics NAS RA; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory

NAS RA; Institute for Physical Research NAS RA

Main Results

• General framework in the following R&D areas: quantum physics, astrophysics, molecular dynamics, 3D

periodic artificial microwave structures, IT infrastructure library performance, quantum 3D reactive scattering in

the 3-body system, identification and recognition of objects from video images by using digital signal and image

processing methods, two-dimensional cellular automata, decision-making and nonlinear boundary parallel

algorithms.

Recent Projects


ISTC(International Science and Technology Center) Project A-1606(2008-2010)

• Development of Armenian-Georgian Grid Infrastructure and applications in the Fields of High Energy Physics,

Astrophysics and Quantum Physics

Participants

• Armenia: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan Physics Institute; Yerevan State

University; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory NAS RA

• Georgia: Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association; Georgian E.Kharadze National

Astrophysical Observatory; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Expected Main Results

• High Energy Physics: The calculation of NNLL QCD corrections for B > Xsγ decay; Monte Carlo production for

the HERMES; Determination of the spin structure of nucleon-nucleon interaction; Spin-filtering experiment;

Astrophysics: Development of Armenian-Georgian Virtual Observatory; Quantum Physics: High performance

computer modeling of quantum optical devices and microstructured Nonlinear Materials

Recent Projects


Outline







National Grid Infrastructure


Computational Resources

# Processors, Peak Performance (GFlops) and RAM (GB) IIAP NAS RA YSU SEUA YERPHI IRPHE NAS RA

proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM

Clusters 176 8399 176 176 1440 144 48 480 48 48 480 48 48 480 48


Infrastructure


Infrastructure operations

• Operational tools:• Static Database: HGSM

(Hierachical Grid Site Management)

• Monitoring– SAM (+SQL port), GStat, GridIce,

Googlemap/earth, MonaLisa, Real Time Monitor, Nagios, Pakiti

• Ticketing system (ops and user support): OneOrZero

• Accounting: RGMA and accounting portal

• Operations wiki• Portal

• Fully interoperable with EGEE,

overlapping

• SLA definition, monitoring and

enforcement and corrective

actions


User Communities

• Biology

• Mathematics

• Informatics and Computer Science

• Astrophysics

• Meteorology

• Environmental Protection

• Seismology

• High Energy Physics

• Quantum Physics

• Cross-border user communities and beneficiaries


Monitoring System

Local Monitoring SystemGanglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.

The Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) provides a service for information, monitoring and logging in a distributed computing environment.

Global Monitoring SystemsGStat is a centralized monitoring service, which monitors the worldwide Grid Information System. Its primary goal is to detect faults, verify the validity of and display useful data from the Information System. BBmSAM availability monitoring of the infrastructure is carried out by using SAM (Service Availability Monitoring) system developed in EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe) project. SAM consists of server and client components that communicate over web services. The client initiates periodical test of infrastructure and published data to server which stores them in database.


Outline


• Recent Projects





Armenia: European Grid Initiative


Grid Core Services


Grid Core Services


Higher-Level Grid Services

Basic Grid services:AA, job submission, info, …

Higher-level grid services (brokering,…)

Application toolkits

Application

Grid middlewareCommand line tools

Portals and GEMLCAGraphical interface

Grid middlewareCommand line tools

Graphical interface


Higher-Level Grid Services


International Monitoring Systems

SAM (Service Availability Monitoring): https://c01.grid.etfbl.net/bbmsam/

Job Accounting: http://gserv4.ipp.acad.bg:8080/AccountingPortal/

WatG Browser (What is at the Grid Browser) :http://watgbrowser.scl.rs:8080/

Nagios (Monitoring tool):https://portal.ipp.acad.bg:7443/seegridnagios/

GSTAT : http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat


Monitoring Systems: GSTAT


SEE Regional Infrastructure


Outline


• Recent Projects





International Projects: Submitted

European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European

Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EU FP7)

Central to this proposal and key to coordinating an Integrated Sustainable Pan-

European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (InSPIRE) is a new legal

organisation EGI.eu which will be the lead partner in the EGI-InSPIRE project.

Currently, being established in Amsterdam, EGI.eu‘s focus is coordinating the

continued operation and expansion of today‘s production grid infrastructure that

supports over 13,000 researchers, many of them already heavy users of the

infrastructure, across diverse disciplines such as Earth Science, Astronomy &

Astrophysics, Fusion research, Computational Chemistry, Materials Science, Life

Sciences and High Energy Physics.

Coordinator: Participants:

Nikhef , Netherlands 39 EU countries + CERN


International Projects: Submitted

High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s

Research Communities (EU FP7)

HP-SEE focuses on a number of strategic actions. First, it will link existing and

upcoming HPC facilities in the region in a common infrastructure, and provide

operational solutions for it. As a complementary action, the project will establish

and maintain GEANT link for Caucasus. Second, it will open this HPC

infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities, including those of less

resourced countries, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities

to researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in computational physics,

chemistry and life sciences. Finally, it will ensure establishment of national HPC

initiatives, and act as a SEE bridge for PRACE.

Coordinator: Participants:

GRNET, Greece 14 countries


International Projects: In Prep.

Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Heavy Metal

Pollution in the Kura River Basin (ISTC)

Brief Description: Environmental pollution is one of major concerns to the South

Caucasus. The main objective of this Project is to deploy a regional research

universal infrastructure for the monitoring of frontier farmlands and decision-making

in this context. The infrastructure will provide mechanisms and tools for fast

detection of sources and definition of levels of Heavy Metal pollution, which is

crucial for the safety of the population.

Partners: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA, Center for

Ecological-Noosphere Studies of NAS RA , Tbilisi State University, Georgian

Research and Educational Networking Association, GIS and RS Consulting Center

GeoGraphic

Collaborators: Belgium (1), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Poland (1),

Romania (1), USA (4), Support Letter (Turkey)


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