Grids and SMEs: Experience and Perspectives Emanouil Atanassov, Todor Gurov, and Aneta Karaivanova Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPP-BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria

, Sofia2 Outline What is Grid ? Grid applications European and regional Grid infrastructures gLite middleware Industry involvement Perspectives for SMEs on the Grid Conclusion

, Sofia3 The 7 wonders of the IT world The 7 wonders of the IT world according to (see also ome;&page=paper&n=4609) ome;&page=paper&n=4609  1. Computer Closest to the North Pole: Webcam #1  2. Computer farthest from Earth: NASA's Voyager 1 satellite  3. World's most intriguing data center: Google  4. World's largest scientific grid computing project: The E-sciencE II (EGEE-II) project  5. World's fastest supercomputer: IBM BlueGene/L  6. Smallest PC to run Windows Vista: OQO, Model 02  7. Biggest Paradigm Change in Enterprise Software: Linux kernel

, Sofia4 Enabling Grids for E- Science (EGEE-II project) Launched – 2 nd phase: April 2006, for use by scientists around the world.for use by Helps power: Large-scale scientific research projects in fields from geology to chemistry—for example, will analyze data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator being built to help investigate details around the Big Bang and related physics questions. Amount of work it does: 98,000 jobs a day, more than 1 million per month. Juggling ability: Runs about 30,000 jobs concurrently, on average. Number of sites connected to the EGEE infrastructure: About 240. Number of countries connected to the EGEE infrastructure: 45. Number of CPUs available to users, 24/7: More than 36,000. Storage capacity available: About 5 PB disk space (5 million GB).

, Sofia5 SEE-GRID A Grid infrastructure for SE-Europe GÉANT. INFRASTRUCTURE GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE eInfrastructure EGEE Production quality grid, CPUs, ~20PB storage, training, 40 countries, 91 partners GÉANT Pan-European Research Network, IPv6 enabled DEISA Grid of 6 supercomputers networked at 1 Gbps, focus on global filing systems,>40 Tflop/s, several user communities. Building blocks of the European e-infrastructure

, Sofia6 What is Grid Unlike the Global Internet (mainly WWW) that gives a full, uncoordinated access to any kind of information, the Grid is a new infrastructure, which provides access to computational and data storage resources distributed all around the world. Definition (Ian Foster): “Coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional Virtual Organizations."  The resources are controlled by their respective owners.  The Grid infrastructure provides access to users which belong to peer organizations.

, Sofia7 EGEE Applications Support applications from diverse communities and businesses  High Energy Physics  Biomedicine  Earth Sciences  Astrophysics  Drug discovery  Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Aided Design  Computational Chemistry  Fusion  Sales management systems  Financial Portfolio management and risk assessment  Textile grid portal  Retail management, …

, Sofia8 gLite middleware User Interface Worker Node Computing Element Storage Element Workload Management System Logical File Catalogue File Transfer Service User and application portals HYDRA encryption key-store …

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, Sofia10 Experience of Businesses with Grid Providers of hardware:  SUN, IBM, HP, DELL, etc. Providers of software:  IBM, SUN, Oracle, Intel, etc. Small businesses, providers of software solutions and portals  Platform  NICE  GRIA  Avanage Users of Grid technology at large scale:  AUDI, SLB, EADS, …

, Sofia11 Experience of the Bulgarian team Support for 11 Virtual organizations with their applications at our Grid site COD team for monitoring all EGEE infrastructure Operational Security Coordination team in EGEE Development and deployment of SEE-GRID 2 flagship application – SALUTE in the domain of nano- technology Deployment and support for core services (R-GMA, FTS, AMGA) for SEE-GRID 2 project. Development of middleware extensions for accounting purposes …

, Sofia12 Perspectives for SMEs involvement Development of Grid middleware plugins/components Development of Grid portals tailored to client application needs and consultancy Using available Grid infrastructure (EGEE, SEE-GRID) for development and testing of Grid applications by business partners. Provision of Grid and Grid-enabled services

, Sofia13 Conclusions Bulgarian scientists participate actively in the new European Grid infrastructure deployment, support and usage. There are several areas for possible collaboration within FP7 of SMEs with research institutions in the domain of Grid applications and Grid technology development.