INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE InterExpo Center, , Sofia Participation of Bulgaria in the European Grid Infrastructure Aneta Karaivanova, Emanouil Atanasov, Todor Gurov, Institute for Parallel processing, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Content What is Grid Aims of the EGEE project Building a production Grid for e-Science Grid application within the EGEE and SEE-GRID projects Vision for the future

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, What is Grid? “Coordinated sharing of resources and problem-solving in dynamic, multi-institutional and virtual organizations” (I.Foster) –The resources are controlled by their owners –The Grid infrastructure give access to users from partner institutions Virtual organization (VО): –People from different organizations, working on a common problem –Sharing of computing and storage resources –Allows collaborative work in the domains of:  e-Science, e-Health  e-Government, e-Business Grid is a new generation of Internet

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Evolution of Grid Historical perspective Local computation –All computational resources are stocked at one place –People travel in order to get access to resources Computations from remote access –The resources are accessible over distance –All significant resources are centralized Distributed computations –The resources are geographically distributed –Specialized protocols for access, mainly for data transfer –Grid computations –The resources and the services are geographically distributed –Standard protocols –Transfer of computations and data Web services and Grid – Grid Services –The industry adopts and standardizes Grid technologies

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, GRID vision From on side: –The researchers are conducting their research activities, collaborating with colleagues and sharing data, no matter of their geographical location From the other side: –Scientific and medical experiments give big quantities of data Grid: –Unites data, computing centres and software

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Advantages of Grid Using resources usually has peak loading The use of the computing capacities augments while uniting the computing centres in Grid Standard protocols Use of open-source software Facilitates the international and interdisciplinary collaboration

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Example: LHC in CERN

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Grid services - scheme

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Example of Grid site: BG01-IPP UI - PKI X.509 certificate keys - JDL files Terminals enter Grid enter Grid enter Grid enter Grid UI WN RB/II CE SE BDII

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, SEE-GRID A Grid infrastructure for SE-Europe Components of the e-infrastructure in Europe GÉANT. INFRASTRUCTURE GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE eInfrastructure EGEE production quality grid, CPUs, ~5PB storage, training, 27 countries, 71 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.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE is the biggest project of the EC, aiming at integration of national, regional and thematic Grids and creation of an unified Grid infrastructure with a transparent access, supporting applications in divers domain of science, medicine, etc. Currently the project is in its second phase and preparing for the third 91 partners from 32 countries

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Aims of the EGEE project EGEE will provide researchers from academia and industry with continuous 24х7 access to key computational resources, independently from their geographical location The infrastructure will support distributed research communities, having common computing needs in the Grid computations

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Scientific domains using EGEE EGEE provides production Grid services –200 Grid sites –> CPU –> 5 Petabytes (10 15 ) storage –> 3000 users Pilot New

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, EGEE Applications Scientific domains –High Energy Physics –Biomedicine –Earth Sciences –Astrophysics –Computational Chemistry –Fusion –Geophysics –Finance, Multimedia –… Connection with business –Forge links with the full spectrum of interested business partners

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Cooperation with other ЕС projects

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Middleware structure Applications have access both to Higher-level Grid Services and to Foundation Grid Middleware Higher-Level Grid Services are supposed to help the users building their computing infrastructure but should not be mandatory Foundation Grid Middleware will be deployed on the EGEE infrastructure –Must be complete and robust –Should allow interoperation with other major grid infrastructures –Should not assume the use of Higher-Level Grid Services Foundation Grid Middleware Security model and infrastructure Computing (CE) and Storage Elements (SE) Accounting Information and Monitoring Higher-Level Grid Services Workload Management Replica Management Visualization Workflow Grid Economies... Applications

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, The EGEE infrastructure in action sites CPU Jobs/day Resources in EGEE  ~200 clusters; 25k CPU  loading from 20K jobs/day  massive transfers FTS > 1.5 GB/s

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, EGEE: > 180 sites, 40 countries > 24,000 processors, ~ 5 PB storage EGEE Grid Sites : Q1 2006

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, A global e-Infrastructure EGEE infrastructure ~ 200 sites in 39 countries ~ CPUs > 5 PB storage > concurrent jobs per day > 60 Virtual Organisations EUIndiaGrid EUMedGrid SEE-GRID EELA BalticGrid EUChinaGrid OSG NAREGI

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, The Bulgarian Grid Initiative BgGrid Consortium. Aims: –Exchange of resources and expertise in the Grid technologies –Development of Grid applications Members of the BgGrid: –Founders: Institute for Parallel Processing of Information and the Institute of nuclear research and nuclear energy- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences –Members: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – BAS, Institute of Mechanics – BAS, Institute of electro-chemistry, Institute of Astronomy – BAS, American University in Bulgaria, University of Plovdiv (FMI), University of Sofia (FMI), University of Mining and Geology

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Bulgarian Grid resources 5 Grid clusters in EGEE The biggest is located in the Institute for Parallel Processing on Information, and is equipped with Myrinet cards for parallel MPI application with requirements for low latency BG04-ACAD (80 CPU) BG01-IPP (21 CPU) CPUStorageTape March 06431TB- Nov TB10TB

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Central (core) servers in Bulgaria For the aims of the regional SEE-GRID project, the IPP supports the following greatly important core servers : R-GMA (distributed data base, accounting) FTS (guarantied data transfer) AMGA (catalogue with metadata information about the files) For the needs of the Bulgarian users, IPP supports : BDII (supports momentary information about the resources) WMS (distributes the tasks among the clusters) MyProxy (maintain certificates) P-GRADE portal All Bulgarian clusters support: WN, CE, SE, MON

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Scientific domains, maintained on the Bulgarian sites High energy Physics Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Ecology Meteorology Astronomy

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, BG application in SEE VO - SALUTE SALUTE (Stochastic ALgorithms for Ultra-fast Transport in sEmiconductors) is a Grid application developed for solving computationally intensive problems in quantum transport. It consists of a bunch of Monte Carlo algorithms for solving quantum kinetic equations which describe the considered model. The quantum kinetic model: a femtosecond relaxation process of optically excited carriers in one-band semiconductors or quantum wires. The electron-phonon interaction is switched on after a laser pulse creates an initial electron distribution. Two cases are considered – with and without applied electric field. Using SALUTE innovative results for different materials can be obtained. Here we present the first version of SALUTE (the results are for GaAs).

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Wigner Function 800 x 260 points t=175 fs

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Energy relaxation process: collisional broadening Accumulation From 10 fs up to 250 fs

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, BG application in ESR VO – air pollution prediction Transition from HPC to Grid computing

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, How to learn Grid technologies Obtaining Grid certificates Training Joining appropriate virtual organization Installation of the necessary software Tests Possibility to install Grid cluster for test purposes

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, Perspectives of the BG Grids The built Grid sites are open for users and applications for the entire Bulgarian academic community It is possible to present the capacities of the Grid for training and for users from the industry The Grid creates a good environment for development of various applications The base for development of the Bulgarian e-infrastructure is created, embracing not only e-Science, but e-Health, e- Government, e-Business.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI InterExpo center, BG Grid contact information For contact: Kiril Boyanov, Director of IPPI- BAS Emanouil Atanasov, EGEE 2 team leader Todor Gurov, SEE-GRID2 team leader Aneta Karaivanova, BGGC contact person