3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 1 Grids at Georgia State – Starting a GRID Infrastructure Art Vandenberg Director, Advanced Campus Services Georgia State University “Copyright Art Vandenberg This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.”

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 2 Getting Grids Going GRID References and concept Georgia State Grid activities NMI components - test drive Finding a starting point - Physics & Astronomy Building Interest Knowledge Discovery: catalog of people, applications... Working with Intra-testbed sites

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 3 Grids - references The Globus Alliance –Research papers The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations, I. Foster et al. The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration, I. Foster et al. –Testbeds Communications of the ACM, Nov “Blueprint for the Future of High-Performance Networking” Tom Garritano, Argonne – Farritano.htmhttp:// Farritano.htm

(This and next 5 slides from presentation of Tom Garritano, Internet2 Fall Member Meeting, October ) The GRID, What is it?… “Resource-sharing technology with software and services that let people access computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.” Three key Grid criteria: –coordinates distributed resources –using standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces –to deliver qualities of service not possible with pre-Grid technologies

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R R R R R R R R R R TG: Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains Sharing resources, common goals Dynamic VO-B VO-A R R

R R R R R R R R R R R R VO-B TG: Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains Sharing resources, common goals Dynamic Fault tolerant

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 10 Georgia State Grid Activities NMI Integration Testbed –SURA, Internet2, Educause NSF Middleware Grant –8 Universities– GSU, UFL, FSU, UAB, UAH, TACC, UVa, UMich, USC – NMI NSF-REU –Research Experience For Undergraduates –$13,640 (2 students, travel) NMI Intra-Testbed GRID –Showcase, demonstration GRID ($17,000 GSU) –Certificate bridge research (UVa, UMich)

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA Test Drive the Components NMI Components: –Globus Toolkit (& GPT, Grid Packaging Tool) –Network Weather Service –Condor-G –MyProxy Technical focus –Basic how to: install, confirm –“How does it work?” –“What resources required?” (hardware, people, expertise)

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA Finding a starting point Dr. Xiaochun He, Physics & Astronomy Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven –Phenix: remote access to large datasets (terabytes) of high-energy nuclear physics (By the way: –“If I’m at an Internet2 school, why’s my connection just 10mbps?” –Options for improved connectivity for Physics Lab.) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN – Muon Detector project with Georgia High Schools

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA Muon Detector Grid? “Large Area Cosmic Muon Flux Measurement” –“Rain” of cosmic particles, Detection is a challenge –Measurement, correlation to weather, electronics –Outreach for GA high school ––> 200 nodes of muon detectors Well, why not a Grid? –Management, security –Testing and learning

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA Digital Aquarium or PC Grid? Digital Aquarium –Highend workstations –Multimedia production tools & software – Put it on the Grid? –Access idle cycles (M-F hours open: 8am-7:30pm) –Availability of software PC Grid? –270? or 550? lab workstations at Georgia State? New ideas... don’t always fly 1st time – “Be Nimble”

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 15 Building Interest… Dr. Vijay Vaishnavi, CIS –Collaboration on metadata & organizational knowledge –Clustering techniques & tools –genetic algorithm across Grid nodes David McBride, University Educational Tech. Services Dr. Rob Harrison, CS Dr. Irene Weber, Biology Dr. Yi Pan, CS Dr. Sham Navathe, Dr.Chris Shaw – Georgia Tech Jon Glass, Inst. Bioengineering & Biosciences, Georgia Tech

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 16 GRID GSU Purpose is to: –Build effective GRID infrastructure –Identify applications that benefit from GRIDs –Attract & retain faculty & students –Foster research activities and opportunities – Linked purposes –NMI Integration Testbed –Georgia State VP Research –faculty research support –Georgia State Provost – State funds limited. Do more with less. Grids as growth sector

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 17 Catalog as Catalyst Why a catalog? –Shared KNOWLEDGE base for our Testbed virtual organization –What’s Georgia State already doing/not doing? ROADMAP –ENGAGE discussion, comment –Identify OPTIONS, possible FOCUS areas Begin Georgia State researchers –NMI NSF/REU – Nicole Gieger (Physics) Anish Shindore (CIS) –Key words: “grid” to “parallel processing” to “computational…” Expand to 9 NMI Testbed sites –Possible REFERENCE set for intra-testbed sites

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 18 Catalog Draft… (DRAFT) Results – –~ 1% of all faculty (177 persons at 9 sites)  99% opportunity! Next level: –catalog Testbed hw resources –Links to national Grid projects –Online db (cf. Tom Garritano and database of globus projects)

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 19 Intra-Testbed Grid Evolving… Develop Intra-Testbed GRID –Revised SOW work, re-directed funds –Funding Masters Students (through August 2004) –Peer collaboration, investigation of grid Taking Grid “out of the lab” –Real world environment –Heterogeneous grid resources –Certificate issues & interoperation (How many do you need?) Leveraging starting points –Muon Grid (with GPS, weather, geomagnetic components...) –TACC Grid Portal work (TACC partner in NSF award)

3 Nov 2003 A. Vandenberg © Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop on Experiences in Middleware Deployment, Anaheim, CA 20 Contact Art Vandenberg Thank you

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