1-1.1 Sample Grid Computing Projects

NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) 2004 – to date‏ Transform our ability to carry out research vital to reducing vulnerability to catastrophic earthquakes from I. Foster Environment/Earth

SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program (SCOOP)

Medicine

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

neuGRID project ended Jan. 31st 2011.

1-1.7 Large Hadron Collider experimental facility for complex particle experiments at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research, near Geneva Switzerland). Physics CERN LCH Computing grid (LCG)‏ Started in Now operational.

Grid computing infrastructure projects Not tied to one specific application

Funded by NSF in 2001 initially to link five supercomputer centers. Hubs established at Chicago and Los Angeles. Five centers connected to one hub: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Chicago hub)‏ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) (Chicago hub)‏ Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) (Chicago hub)‏ San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) ( LA hub)‏ Caltech (LA hub)‏ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) (Chicago hub)‏ TeraGrid

Hubs at Chicago and Los Angeles Interconnected using 40 Gigabit/sec optical backplane network. Five centers Connected to one hub using 30 Gigabit/sec connections State-of-the-art optical lines could reach 10 Gigabit/sec in the early 2000s Four lines used to achieve 40 Gigabit/sec. Three lines used to achieve 30 Gigabit/sec

TeraGrid circa 2004

TeraGrid as of 2008

eXtreme Digital (XD) National Science Foundation’s new Cyberinfrastructure program which will replace and expand upon the existing TeraGrid program. Started in summer 2011.

Open Science Grid (OSG) Started around 2005, received $30 million funding from NSF and DOE in 2006: Boston University Brookhaven National Laboratory California Institute of Technology Columbia University Cornell University Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Indiana University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Stanford Linear Accelerator Center University of California, San Diego University of Chicago University of Florida University of Iowa University of North Carolina/RENCI University of Wisconsin- Madison

SURAGrid as of 2011 Southeastern Universities Research Association Fig. 1.4

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

National Grids Many countries embraced Grid computing in early-mid 2000’s and set-up Grid computing infrastructures: D-Grid, Germany DutchGrid, Netherlands Grid–Ireland, Ireland Hungrid, Hungary National Grid Service, UK Norgrid, Norway SweGrid, Sweden TNGC, Thai National Grid Center TWGrid, Taiwan etc, …

UK e-Science Grid Early 2000’s

UK National Grid Service Follow-up from UK e-Science Grid Founded in 2004 to provide distributed access to computational and database resources, with four core sites: – Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Leeds, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory By 2008, it had grown to 16 sites. Access free to any academic with a legitimate need

National Grid Service

Multi-national Grids , several efforts to create Grids that spanned across many countries

EGI-InSPIRE Framework Programme 7 ( ) Research infrastructures project. In addition to over 40 partners located within Europe, EGI-InSPIRE includes 8 unfunded partners from Asia Pacific region.

DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) DEISA-1 project from DEISA-2 started in 2008, to extend to 2011 Still active 1a.48

Europe and Latin America

Vision of a single universal international Grid such as the Internet/World Wide Web May never be achieved though. More likely - Grids will connect to other Grids but will maintain their identity. 1a.52