1. GRIDS Center John McGee, USC/ISI mcgee@isi.edu April 10, 2003 Internet2 – Spring Member Meeting Arlington, VA NSF Middleware Initiative

2. GRIDS Center G rid R esearch I ntegration D evelopment & S upport http://www.grids-center.org USC/ISI - Chicago - NCSA – SDSC - Wisconsin

3. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 3 Enabling Collaborative Science l Enable distributed communities to pursue common goals u Scientific research u Engineering design u Artistic creation u Education l Focusing on the enabling mechanisms required for collaboration u Resource sharing as a fundamental concept

4. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 4 Elements of Grid Computing l Resource sharing u Computers, storage, sensors, networks u Sharing is always conditional, based on issues of trust, policy, negotiation, payment, etc. l Coordinated problem solving u Beyond client-server: distributed data analysis, computation, collaboration, etc. l Dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations u Community overlays on classic org structures u Large or small, static or dynamic

5. Grids Center Software Suite Release 3 April 21, 2003

6. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 6 Software Suite l Globus Toolkit l Condor-G l Network Weather Service l GSI-OpenSSH l KX.509/KCA l MyProxy l MPICH-G2 l Grid Packaging Tools l GridConfig Tools

7. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 7 Platforms l Red Hat Linux u 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 l Solaris 8.0 on SPARC l Platforms integrated into build/test process: u AIX 5.1 u SUSE IA64 (SLES 8) u Tru64

8. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 8 Plans for Release 4 l More software component: u GridSolve, pyGlobus, APST, Ganglia, etc. u Enhanced usage of GridConfig l Focused effort to ship on additional platforms u AIX, IA64 SUSE, HPUX, Tru64 l Refine and export the processes

9. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 9 Exporting the Process l Machine Pool u Automated builds, deployment, verification testing u 2 tiers: l Grids Center internal l Distributed open community

10. Enabling Distributed Science www.grids-center.org 10 l Software Set u Iterate Packaging strategy u Enhanced distribution and installation strategy l Goals u Accommodate more software components faster u Enhance the capabilities of Grid builders Exporting the Process

11. Questions? mcgee@isi.edu