GRID COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PUBLIC SERVICES International Forum Electronicс Services - solutions and prospective Chisinau, March 2009 by V. Sidorenco Technical University of Moldova, RENAM

e-services RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC SERVICES Front Office Back Office

e-services ELECTRONIC SERVICES E-services are interactive Requests via web interface to back-office systems Main parameter is QoS Critical: back-office systems peak performance Minimal delay of reply time Broadband connectivity The solution: cluster, grid, cloud computing

e-services GRID COMPUTING Grid computing is a technology to build virtual supercomputers by utilizing/sharing unused resources on connected PC’s. Network itself is a virtual supercomputer This technology has achieved maturity recently and brought a new opportunity for developing countries to build their national computing powers.

Distributed Computing evolution Computing Ubiquity DC Research Distributed Batch Queuing NQS, DQS, Condor, … LSF Batch Grid Research Internet Grid Computing JobScheduler Parallel Analyzer MultiCluster UNIX workstations & supercomputers SMPs & UNIX workstations Linux & Windows farms with commd. chips 2 Vaxen + Ethernet System Arch Trend : e-services Grid-aware operating systems: XtreemOS Microsoft Windows Azure 2008

1.Task request 2.Task splitting into jobs and jobs submission 3.Subresults collection 4.Final result assembling (aggregation) e-services GRID COMPUTING PRINCIPLE

e-services HIGH RELIABILITY COMPUTING

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e-services GRIDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES The national computing power can be built based on emerging computing technology paradigm: the Grid computing. There will be many PC’s at the public access points and many servers of Public Internet Nodes. These computers are to be connected by Internet and the expected utilization rate is not high.

e-services GRIDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES Therefore, these PC’s will provide a huge opportunity to build virtual supercomputers. These supercomputers can help to improve the content provision on the PIN itself, but can also help other o social, o economic, o technical and scientific areas’ development. Once the powerful supercomputers can provide software services online, it can also provide cheap PC’s for the people in low income rural areas. This will help to bridge the digital divide.

e-services SEE-GRID-SCI: e-Infrastructure for regional e-science

e-services SEE-GRID-SCI Project Participants Moldova

e-services SEE-GRID-SCI PROJECT PARTNERS Contractors GRNETGreece CERNSwitzerland SZTAKIHungary IPP-BASBulgaria ICIRomania TUBITAKTurkey ASA/INIMAAlbania UoBLBosnia-Herzegovina UKIMFYR of Macedonia UOBSerbia UoMMontenegro RENAM Moldova RBICroatia IIAP-NAS-RAArmenia - new GRENAGeorgia - new Third Parties 30 universities / research centres Start date: 01/05/2008 Duration:24 months Total Budget: 2,499,969 Є

e-services APPLICATIONS AREA The project is focusing on forming regional research teams that are engaged in elaboration large scale applications of common regional interest: Seismology VO Meteorology VO Environmental VO The work programme envisages analysis of the mentioned VOs requirements, their gridification and run-time support of the target applications. These three strategic Virtual Organisations will bring together users across the region within a common research space, enabling them to share data, applications, tools and results of their work.

e-services New communities integration in the regional eInfastructure

e-services SEE-GRID infrastructure nodes

e-services MD-Grid Consortium in SEE-GRID-SCI Moldova participates in the project as MD-Grid JRU Consortium with RENAM as Contractor and following third parties - JRU members: FRT TUM - Faculty of Radioelectronics and Telecommunications of Technical University of Moldova IGS ASM - Institute of Geology and Seismology of Academy of Sciences of Moldova SHMS - State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova

e-services Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (1) RENAM is responsible for NGI development and its sustainable operation, extension of the National Grid infrastructure by installation of new clusters and their inclusion into common Grid segment of Moldova and into the SEE-GRID infrastructure.

e-services Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (2) FRT TUM is hosting grid-clusters, assists in gridification of applications and cooperates with a significant number of universities and centers from different countries, participate in SEE-GRID-SCI project as third party behind RENAM Association.

e-services First GRID cluster in Moldova mounted at FRT TUM in April 2006

e-services Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (3) IGS ASM provides contributions on real-time monitoring of earthquakes and development of regional monitoring capacities, implementation of real-time seismic data processing and real-time data exchange at regional and international level.

e-services Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (4) SHMS contributes to the environmental VO by testing and deployment of GreenView application and Meteo VO applications. The service infrastructure and specialists are involved into MD- Grid JRU scientific research and production grid activities in requirements definition, input data provision and interpretation of results on national, regional and international levels.

e-services Distribution of applications according to VOs

e-services Seismology VO Following applications were identified for the seismology VO:  Seismic Risk Assessment  Massive Digital Seismological Signal Processing with the Wavelet Analysis  Numerical Modelling of Mantle Convection Seismology virtual organization involves researchers from FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Greece and Turkey. The partnership is coordinated by TUBITAK (Turkey).

e-services Cumulative Seismic Activity in Romania and Moldova

e-services Seismology VO relationship with other initiatives

e-services Meteorology VO Meteorology VO involves researchers from Greece, Serbia, Moldova, Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The partnership is coordinated by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA). There are two sets of applications :  Regional scale Multi-model, Multi-analysis ensemble forecasting system.  Study of the interaction of airflow with complex terrain. The results produced within the meteorology VO will allow the meteorological entities participating in the project to assess the probability of a particular weather event to occur and to provide this information to the authorities, the general public, etc, in order to help them to make the necessary decisions based on this probabilistic information. Special focus will be given at the SEE-wide scale where detailed forecasts are necessary for the protection of life and property.

e-services Environmental VO Environmental VO bring together scientists and research institutions, working in the domains of Environmental modelling, Geomagnetism, Environmental security, Environment evolution supervision and impact of climate-related events in the SEE region. Environmental VO covers the following main applications set:  Modelling System for Emergency Response to the Release of Harmful Substances in the Atmosphere (MSERRHSA)  Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis for Environmental Systems (MCSAES)  Multi-scale Atmospheric Composition Modelling (MSACM)  Regional Modelling of the Geomagnetism  Environment oriented Satellite Data Processing (ESIP) - GreenView RENAM, FRT TUM and State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova supports pilot application for the ESIP/GreenView development, platform testing and deployment.

e-services Total (dry+wet) oxidized nitrogen deposition [mg/m 2 ], 4 scenarios

Grid-mode tests: CMAQ CB-4 Mechanism Response to Reduction of Main Ozone Precursors Emissions in the Balkans e-services

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e-services CONCLUSIONS Grid computing technologies and infrastructure are capable to significantly improve basic parameters of the Quality of Public Electronic Services SEE-GRID-SCI project helps to deploy a sustainable Grid infrastructure, which, coupled with human networking activities is of particular societal, educational, and political importance to the SEE region, including Moldova.

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