Austrian Grid Project (BMBWK GZ 4003/2-VI/4c/2004) EU CrossGrid Project (IST ) EU EGEE Project (INFSO ) The Austrian Grid Initiative and the Central European Grid Consortium – Combining National and Regional Efforts Dieter Kranzlmüller GUP, Joh. Kepler University Linz

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Acknowledgments Input for this presentation from … Ludek Matyska (Brno) Peter Kacsuk (Budapest) Aleksander Kusznir (Cracow) Michal Turala (Cracow) Thomas Fahringer (Innsbruck) Martin Polak (Linz) Jens Volkert (Linz) … Thanks and apologies

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Contents The Past … The Future … The Present … The ACE Model: Relations between Local, National, Regional, and International Projects  Summary and Perspectives

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow One Year Ago … October 27-29, 2003

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The Past 2004: January: AcrossGrids Conference (Nikosia) March: CrossGrid Review (Karlsruhe) April 1: Austrian Grid Project Start April 1: EGEE Project Start April: 1 st EGEE Conference (Dublin) July: CrossGrid Review (Dagstuhl) November: 2 nd EGEE Conference (The Hague)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Next Year …

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The Future 2005: February: 1 st EGEE Review (Geneva) February: European Grid Conference + CrossGrid Final Review (Amsterdam) April: 3 rd EGEE Conference (Athens) May/September: EU Call/Deadline (IST,Infrastr.) Autumn: Austrian Grid Symposium (Linz) November: 4 th EGEE Conf. (Edinburgh)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The Present CrossGrid is in its final phase … EGEE is in its hot phase … EU Calls on the horizon … –May/Sept. 2005: IST Call 5 (~70 M€) –May/Sept. 2005: Infrastructure Call:  EGEE 2 nd Phase –Other Proposals?!?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model Austrian Grid Consortium: National Initiative Partners from: Linz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Graz, Vienna 15 Workpackages (Middleware + Applications) 2.7 M€ from Austrian Federal Ministry (bm:bwk) Austrian Grid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model Central European Grid Consortium Central European Grid Consortium: Partners from: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland Current Chair: Ludek Matyska (Brno)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model EGEE Consortium: 70 Partners from 27 Countries 12 Federations (e.g. Central Europe) 32 M€ (April 1, 2004 – March 31, 2006) “Largest Grid Infrastructure Project on the World” EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EGEE Activities Joint Research: –Middleware Engineering and Integration, Quality Assurance, Security, Network Services Development Services: –Grid Operations, Support and Management, Network Resource Provision Networking: –Management, Dissemination and Outreach, User Training and Education, Application Identification and Support, Policy and International Cooperation

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Grid Infrastructures EGEE Approach Production Grid Infrastructure End-User Support and Services Networking Infrastructure Stability/Reliability Border Applications

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EGEE Grid Infrastructure Networking Infrastructure Applications Grid Infrastructures EGEE Approach Production Grid Infrastructure End-User Support and Services Networking Infrastructure Applications

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow More about EGEE “EGEE, First Result and Future Plans” Fabrizio Gagliardi (EGEE Project Director) CERN  Wednesday, December 15, :05 – 09:50

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow How does it all connect together? National Regional International

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACE Model EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow How can we contribute?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow CE in EGEE Today’s contribution to EGEE: –NA2: Dissemination and Outreach –NA3: User Training and Education –NA4: Application Identification and Support –SA1: Grid Operations, Support and Management  Distributed ROC (Lead by CYFRONET) –JRA1: Middleware Engineering and Integration (CESNET)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow How can we contribute in the Future?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow CE Federation Tomorrow’s contribution to EGEE? EGEE Stabilization: –Grid Infrastructure Deployment EGEE Expansion: –New partners (e.g. Baltic countries) –New applications (e.g. Flooding) –New middleware services (e.g. Interactivity)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EGEE Future  EGEE Phase 2 + Associated FP6 Projects

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Central European Future “Competition is (too) strong” Answer: “Yes, but …” Competition is good for all of us (e.g. for quality …) Central Europe has lots of things to offer

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow ACE Model Extension EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid Czech Republic Hungary Slovenia Slovakia Poland

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACEs Model EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid Czech Republic Hungary Slovenia Slovakia Poland

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EGEE Federations Facts Central Europe is Largest federation in terms of partners (13 partners) Second largest federation (after Northern) in terms of participating countries (6 countries) Second biggest federation (after Germany) in terms of population (~78 million)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Example Success Story

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EU CrossGrid Project Partners, 11 Countries

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow EU CrossGrid Project Large, successful FP5 Grid Project  User-Centered Grid Computing Costs: 7 M€, EU Funding: 5 M€ Lead by Cyfronet (Poland) 7 Central European Partners

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow How can we contribute in the Future?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Central Europe Offers Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure  CrossGrid Testbed Expertise in Grid Application development  Applications: e.g. Flooding,… Expertise in Middleware development  Interactivity Support, … …

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Central Europe Offers Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure  CrossGrid Testbed Expertise in Grid Application development  Applications: Medical, Flooding,… Expertise in Middleware development  Interactivity Support …

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow CrossGrid Testbed Countries 21 Partners 184 CPUs, 4 TBytes

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow CE Contributions to EGEE Infrastructure Merge CrossGrid with EGEE Infrastructure  Immediate increase in number of CPUs  Impact in terms of operation expertise Install Central European EGEE Testbed  Focus on development for EGEE Grids  Stimulate our own developments

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Central Europe Offers Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure  CrossGrid Testbed Expertise in Grid Application development  Applications: e.g. Flooding,… Expertise in Middleware development  Interactivity Support, … …

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Flooding Visualization in the CAVE Cooperation with Slovak Academy of Sciences (Ladislav Hluchy)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow CE Contributions to Grid Applications LandscapeGrid Proposal: Grid-Based System for Landscape Risk Management

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Central Europe Offers Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure  CrossGrid Testbed Expertise in Grid Application development  Applications: e.g. Flooding,… Expertise in Middleware development  Interactivity Support, … …

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Cooperation with Univ. Amsterdam Bio Medical App.

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Visualization Interactive Scientific Visualization on the Grid Seamless Integration in existing visualization toolkit (e.g. VTK) Computational Steering of Grid Applications  Grid Visualization Kernel (GVK)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Grid Visualization Kernel Worker node Gatekeeper on the Grid Client glogin Point of Contact glogin’’ GVK vis. data WORKING! inter- action interaction

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Feature List glogin glogin enables … Low-level communication functionality Grid shell (SSH replacement)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow glogin shell

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow glogin shell

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Feature List glogin glogin enables … Low-level communication functionality Grid shell (SSH replacement) TCP forwarding (multiple local/remote) X11 and VNC forwarding PPP protocol tunneling VPN between nodes on and off the Grid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow glogin Supports: Globus GT2/GT3, PBS, ARC*, SUN Grid Engine Used/Deployed/Requested: EU CrossGrid, AustrianGrid, DutchGrid, NorduGrid, … Publication: –H. Rosmanith, D. Kranzlmüller, "glogin - A Multi- functional, Interactive Tunnel into the Grid", Proc. Grid 2004, 5th IEEE/ACM Intl. Workshop on Grid Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, (November 2004)

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Middleware Extensions Interactivity Visualization Collaboration On-demand Pervasiveness Security … What else?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow The ACEs Model EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science Central European Grid Consortium Austrian Grid Czech Republic Hungary Slovenia Slovakia Poland

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Summary Focus on your particular expertise  There is lots of Grid computing expertise in Central Europe Don’t fear competition  Central Europe is doing really good work (- we’ve proven that) Join forces with other members of Central European federation

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Perspectives Lots of possibilities  EU Calls (May/Sept.) Lots of work and excitement for 2005

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Events 2005 February 14-16, 2005: European Grid Conference, Amsterdam, NL April 18-22, 2005: 3rd EGEE Conference, Athens, Greece November 14-18, 2005: 4th EGEE Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland ??? CGW 2005, Cracow, Poland

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Apologies … for my enthusiasm and excitement

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow Questions?