Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Preston Smith Rosen Center for Advanced Computing Purdue University - West Lafayette West Lafayette Calumet

2 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid What Is the NWIC Grid? Collaboration of multiple academic institutions in NW Indiana: –Purdue University, West Lafayette –Purdue University, Calumet –University of Notre Dame In cooperation with DOE & Argonne National Labs To enhance our joint research capabilities driven by high-end cyberinfrastructure –Cycles, bandwidth, storage, visualization –Train users to effectively middleware that makes the grid transparent –Applications research that demonstrates the grid’s potential Cyberinfrastructure education With significant initial funding thru DOE

3 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Purdue, WL Purdue, Calumet Argonne Notre Dame

4 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Goal of Effort Enhance our collective impact on Science & Engineering through –promoting grid computing in our research, teaching and outreach This involves –Fostering new collaborations and new research projects –Building shared infrastructure: hardware, middleware, access privileges –Developing new paradigms for high-end grid computing

5 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Some Key Efforts Parallel 3D Potts model package –Morphogenesis model for cells by lattice distribution –Energy model to explain morphogenesis Star cluster evolution –How do binary stars impact cluster evolution –How is the evolutionary trajectory impacted by the mass of the cluster 9/11 World Trade Center North Tower Impact –Replicate exterior damage to calibrate model parameters –Determine plausible scenarios for interior structural damage

6 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Open Science Grid NWICG Partner grid of the OSG consortium Demonstrated connectivity between partners using OSG –Used OSG to run 9/11 LS-DYNA simulations at NotreDame –Demonstrated debugging prototype that diagnosed previously unknown problems in tens of thousands of jobs on Teragrid Developing wide range of software to use OSG –Support HEP communities at Notre Dame and Purdue Calumet –global-scale system for securely distributing complex software for high energy physics codes –tactical storage systems to interoperate with the EGEE European Grid, for international scale bioinformatics dataset retrieval –“identity boxing” techniques for space allocation facilities to improve robustness of grid.

7 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Application Drivers Energy Systems modeling Nuclear Stewardship modeling Environmental modeling New material properties via molecular modeling Modeling of dispersal of radioactive materials Computational Nanoscale Device modeling Computational astrophysics Design optimization for manufacture Computational ecology Multiscale modeling in biological systems Peta scale data set processing from high energy physics Distributed environmental sensor networks & processing On-line data repositories: biometrics, genome, multi-media 3D Stereo of fluid dynamics in a blast furnace Remote Observatory Large scale biometric databases Mosquito genomic databases

8 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Infrastructure Purdue West Lafayette –SGI Altix supercomputer (128 core,.5TB RAM, 33TB disk) –Campus grid (Condor) available to researchers at all NWICG campuses, and all communities in the OSG Purdue Calumet –Visualization facility –Condor pool, flocked with pools in West Lafayette Notre Dame –Sun Opteron cluster (144 CPU, 36 TB of NetApp storage) –Condor pool, flocked with pools in West Lafayette

9 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Key Challenges H/W Infrastructure is the “easy” part –But do need coordination Build and ensure availability of top-notch human technical support –Both system administration and application development –Accessible to all member campuses –Build knowledge by working with colleagues in OSG Develop management infrastructure to support multi-institution proposals Most of all: keep eye on leveraging resources to enhance real science and engineering

10 Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Purdue, WL Purdue, Calumet Argonne Notre Dame Next Steps Complete the physical infrastructure –Deploying Altix at Purdue, finalizing WAN connections to research networks and I-light at ND and Calumet Optimize collaborations –Administrative level –Middleware level –Research level –Resource level Support efforts that develop compelling grid paradigms

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