Luke Drury, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, on behalf of the Irish Grid Community Irish eInfrastructure and Grid initiatives

CosmoGrid - computation MarineGrid - data WebCom-G - high-level interface Others One Grid - many VOs All supported by Grid-Ireland and HEAnet

Coordinates Grid middleware supports VOs Acts as certification authority managed layer on top of HEAnet everthing but compute resources Grid-Ireland Umbrella body Homogeneous support for heterogeneous systems

National Research Network Peers to all major NRENs Last month tested UCLP (User controlled light path) connection to Taiwan’s TANET2 via CA*net4 HEAnet Have dark fibre(s) - let there be light!

Computational physics of natural phenomena Astrophysics Geophysics Atmospheric physics Nine participating organisations CosmoGrid

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Major University research groups Met Éireann and Armagh Observatory Grid-Ireland and HEAnet CosmoGrid Partners ca 60 individuals, 11.8MEuro over 5 years under PRTLI cycle-III

CosmoGrid people in Kilkenny

Extinction map from 2Mass data

Pulsed Jet calculation with AMR

5 Grid gateways installed in DIAS, TCD, UCD, NUIG and UCC and remotely managed by Grid-Ireland. 6 th coming at QUB (paid by UK eScience) Three medium-size computational clusters to be installed in UCD, NUIG and DIAS over next three years. CosmoGrid Infrastructure

Galway CosmoGrid Gateway

SFI funded 4 year programme €4.6M linked individual Investigator awards to John Morrison UCC - WebCom-G development Brian Coghlan TCD - Grid integration Andy Shearer NUI, Galway - Applications & stress testing WebCom-G

WebCom-G - making the Grid usable Non-von-Neumann middleware to hide the Grid Uses condensed graphs to provide an integrated solution from applications to hardware Provide users with a light interface to the grid for their applications Will be compatible with existing grid middleware tools- Globus, Condor and Cactus Has the potential to bridge middlewares

10x land area Most comprehensive study of a country’s marine heritage Large data set > 12TB (and growing Commercially sensitive fish stocks oil/gas reserves mineral deposits MarineGrid National Seabed Survey

MarineGrid Partners Geological Survey of Ireland Survey ‘owners’ Marine Institute Data collection NUI, Galway - data centre Working data archive Grid access

Seabed Survey - Rock Classification J-L Ryan, NUI, Galway

Implementations: Use IPv6 at network level Simplify the user interface(s) Policy: Ireland VERY lacking in compute part of eInfrastructure – need policy change Do we need a debate on Grid ethics? Some personal views on Policy Issues

Grid(s) are alive and well in Ireland Good coverage of major disciplines Good non-compute eInfrastructure VERY lacking in compute part of eInfrastructure First good example of heterogeneity Open to further international collaborations Conclusions