The DutchGrid Platform – An Overview – 1
DutchGrid today and tomorrow
David Groep, NIKHEF
2003-07-03
The DutchGrid PlatformLarge-scale Distributed Computing in the Netherlands
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DutchGrid
Open “platform” of interested parties
Goals• Expertise coordination• Provide core national services• Developer and end-user support• Test bed• Dissemination
Currently 12 organisations and growing
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Participants From related projects & interested organisations Resource and service providers:
Natl. Computing Facilities Foundation
own test beds, EDG services
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer-2
WTCW Virtual Lab / VL E-Science
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Participants contd
Many more on application side:
e-business
medical imaging
meteo &climate
bio informatics
(radio) astronomyVLBI
materials science
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Some Applications
Virtual Laboratorycomprehensive analysis environments for experimentation
Chemo-physical surface analysis (PIXE,FT-IR,SIMS) correlating “omics” databases Virtual Surgery (planning by-passes, artery repairs)
Particle Physics DØ, Atlas, LHCb, AliceCommon Application Layer: Monte-Carlo and Analysis
OPERA – KNMI: ozone monitoring and mapping space data integration and validation
(radio) AstronomyLOFAR, AVO, VLBI – semi-online and offline processing
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Services
Authentication Service (CA)• Serves entire NL scientific community
DataGrid, CrossGrid, VL-E, DAS-2, …• Member of EDG CACG PMA
Support Desk• Installation support• End-user help desk
gives insight in requirements and real needs
Tutorials
Test bed coordination
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Test Bed Resources
ASCI ‘DAS-2’ systems (university CS)• 400 CPUs, homogeneous clusters at 5 sites
NIKHEF and LCG test bed• 150 CPUs• 3 TByte disk cache
NCF Grid Initiative• Fabric Research: 66 systems• Production setup: 64 CPUs• Network research 10 Gb/s• Storage access
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Resources cntd
SARA: the national HPC centre• Tape-based mass store: 500 TByte• 30 GByte disk cache• 1024 CPU SGI Origin 3800 MPP
Summary• ~ 8 people in deployment and operations• Match infrastructures to real application usage
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Dutch Grid Sites
KNMI
KUNijmegen
TUDelft
ULeiden
VU
UUtrecht
TelinNIKHEFSARAUvAAMOLF
DutchGrid site map 20030702David Groep, NIKHEF
ASTRON, JIVE
Philips NatLab
Amsterdam
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Interconnect
All Dutch Grid sites linked to SURFnet5• 10 Gb/s backbone• National DWDM • Links to Géant,
US, CZ, CERN
Customer links• 1-2 Gb/s• IPv4 and IPv6• JIVE on 5 Gb/s!
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Developments
DutchGrid role in future deployment in NL
Test bed activities• Creating comprehensive environments• Support for application scientists• Integration and validation
Service hosting for ‘ad-hoc’ collaborations
Close integration with DSCs
Dissemination
… expanding into NEG context
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Summary
Research, applications and deployment
Strong coordination
Diverse applications
Diverse resources
Expanding rapidly!
www.dutchgrid.nl
www.cs.vu.nl/das2 grid.sara.nl www.surfnet.nl
www.nikhef.nl/grid www.nwo.nl/ncf