eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Sharing ICT Resources – Discussion of Best Practices in the U.S. Mary E. Spada Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago Advisor, Strategic Partnerships San Diego Supercomputing Center/University of San Diego

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Session Objective Discuss best practices for resource sharing on the U.S. side

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Community Framework Users (Virtual and Physical Organizations) Infrastructure (Network and Computational) Software (Tools and Services)

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Selected US Examples

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Revisiting the Range of Challenges Technical –interoperability, production, services Logistical, legal –licensing policies, Intellectual Property policies, training, authority, authentication, accounting, security, etc Ideological –cultural and administrative domains International –sharing resources across national boundaries Users –“Means to an end” - need/expect performance –Throughput and results are the primary metrics

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Best Practices -TeraGrid Best Practice Candidate –Technical Interoperability –Logistical Security Training Not yet fully “baked” –Users meeting expectations –Ideological Administrative –International TG should not (yet) be considered a fully operational facility.

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Best Practices -TeraGrid TG has begun to develop policies and procedures to share resources –Common logins -> file sharing -> addressing commonly allocated resources. –Details still under development/discussion Discussions currently taking place regarding the establishment of some type of Service Level Agreement (SLA) to provide a basis for resource sharing among the nine sites

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Best Practices -TeraGrid NSF “Dear Colleague” letter pertaining to TG explicitly prioritized sharing/coordination among 9 sites including: –Shared development –Common platforms and resources –Integrated user support –Cooperative outreach –Coordinated allocation process –Operation of common backbone network

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Best Practices - TeraGrid Above the technical, below the policy lies TACTICS User engagement –Example: Applications Working Group - 70 applications

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 What can other efforts illustrate? GEON –a scientist-centered cyberinfrastructure… –Using a scalable and interoperable network, the project provides geo-scientists with a growing array of tools including data integration mechanisms, computational resources and integrated software for analysis, modeling, and visualization. –Excellence in addressing technical and user challenges BIRN and other BioGrid –Excellence in addressing legal and idealogical challenges –Resource sharing in a highly sensitive environment

eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - 15 April 2004 Next steps TeraGrid –All Hands Meeting (mid-May) Opportunity to structure international cooperation discussion? –Form a TG International Resource Sharing Working Group Possibility for DEISA linkage? Revisit Collaboration Mechanism #5 –Funded major Grid and middleware projects to include specific international components –Specifically, consider that 5% of PROJECT X resources were “reserved” for “foreign” projects. –Candidates for PROJECT X: TeraGrid, GEON, DEISA, EGEE, Access Grid, Diverse BIOGRID efforts? …?? –What needs to happen next? Don’t overlook other efforts (GEON, BIRN/BIOGRID, NEESgrid…)