1. GridPP, The Grid & Industry
Tony Doyle, Project Leader
Steve Lloyd, Collaboration Board Chairman
Robin Middleton, Middleware Coordinator
Neasan O’Neill, Events Officer
Who we are, what it is and
what we can do.

2. Developed a working, highly functional Grid
Who are GridPP?
19 UK Universities, CERN and
CCLRC (RAL & Daresbury)
Funded by PPARC:
GridPP (£17m)
“From Web to Grid”
GridPP (£16m)
“From Prototype to Production”
GridPP (proposed)
“From Production to Exploitation”
Developed a working, highly functional Grid

3. Web: information sharing
Invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee
Quickly crossed over into public use
No. of Internet hosts (millions)
Year
Agreed protocols: HTTP, HTML, URLs
Anyone can access information and post their own

4. Why do particle physicists need the Grid?
The CERN LHC
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator
4 Large Experiments

6. Why do particle physicists need the Grid?
Example from LHC: starting from this event
Concorde
(15 Km)
Mt. Blanc
(4.8 Km)
One year’s data from LHC would fill a stack of CDs 20km high
~100,000,000 electronic channels
800,000,000 proton-proton interactions per second
Higgs per second
10 PBytes of data a year
(10 Million GBytes = 14 Million CDs)
We are looking for this “signature”
Selectivity: 1 in 1013
Like looking for 1 person in a thousand world populations
Or for a needle in 20 million haystacks!

7. Solution – Build a Grid Share more than information
Efficient use of resources at many institutes
Leverage over other sources of funding
Data, computing power, applications
Join local communities
Challenges:
share data between thousands of scientists with multiple interests
link major and minor computer centres
ensure all data accessible anywhere, anytime
grow rapidly, yet remain reliable for more than a decade
cope with different management policies of different centres
ensure data security
be up and running routinely by 2007

8. Middleware is Everything
Your Program
Single PC
Grid
PROGRAMS
Your Program
MIDDLEWARE
User
Interface
Machine
Word/Excel
Games
/Web
Resource Broker
Information Service
OPERATING SYSTEM
CPU
Disks, CPU etc
Replica Catalogue
Bookkeeping Service
Middleware is the Operating System of a distributed computing system
Disk
Server
CPU
Cluster
CPU
Cluster
CPU
Cluster

9. GridPP Middleware Development
Grid Data Management
Network Monitoring
Workload Management
Information Services
Security
Storage Interfaces

10. What you need to use the Grid
1. Get a digital certificate (UK Certificate Authority)
Authentication – who you are
2. Join a Virtual Organisation (VO)
Authorisation – what you are allowed to do
3. Get access to a local User Interface Machine (UI) and copy your files and certificate there
4. Write some Job Description Language (JDL) and scripts to wrap your programs
############# HelloWorld.jdl #################
Executable = "/bin/echo";
Arguments = "Hello welcome to the Grid ";
StdOutput = "hello.out";
StdError = "hello.err";
OutputSandbox = {"hello.out","hello.err"};
#########################################

11. International Context
GridPP is part of EGEE and LCG (currently the largest Grid in the world)
EU Enabling Grids for e-Science (EGEE)
Grid Deployment Project for all disciplines
GridPP
LCG
EGEE
UK National Grid Service
UK’s core production computational and data Grid
LHC Computing Grid (LCG)
Grid Deployment Project for LHC
NorduGrid (Scandinavia)
Grid Research and Development collaboration
Open Science Grid (USA)
Science applications from HEP to biochemistry

12. The LCG Grid Status Worldwide 182 Sites 23,438 CPUs 9.2 PB Disk
2,200 Years of CPU time UK
21 Sites
4,482 CPUs
180 TB Disk
593 Years of CPU time

13. What GridPP Has Done So Far
Analysed 300,000 possible drug components in the fight against the Avian Flu virus
Simulated 46 million molecules for medical research in 5 weeks, which would have taken over 80 years on a single PC
Reached transfer speeds of 1 Gigabyte per second in high speed networking tests from CERN – a DVD every 5 seconds
Simulated 500 million particle physics collisions with the BaBar experiment
Transformed the way particle physics computing problems are approached

14. Who else can use a Grid? Astronomy Bioinformatics Engineering
Healthcare
Commerce
Gaming

15. “UK contributes to EGEE's battle with malaria”
Number of Biomedical jobs processed by country
BioMed
Successes/Day
Success % %
WISDOM (Wide In Silico Docking On Malaria)
The first biomedical data challenge for drug discovery, which ran on the EGEE grid production service from 11 July 2005 until 19 August 2005.
GridPP resources in the UK contributed ~100,000 kSI2k-hours from 9 sites
Normalised CPU hours contributed to the
biomedical VO for UK sites, July-August 2005

16. "GridPP has been developed to help answer questions about the conditions in the Universe just after the Big Bang," said Professor Keith Mason, head of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).
"But the same resources and techniques can be exploited by other sciences with a more direct benefit to society."

17. GridPP & Industry What We Have To Offer
Our Grid
Security tools
GridSite
R-GMA
APEL accounting system

18. Our Grid
The UK Grid (via one of the individual university sites) can be used to run applications for areas such as finance and image processing.

19. Certification Authority
Security Tools & Gridsite Grid Security for the Web Web platforms for Grids
Digital Certificates
Certification Authority
Gridsite identifies users to websites with the digital certificates
GridSiteWiki is an extension to the tool
GridSite is open source (
Gridsite: Have access to the sites' web-based editing interface.

20. RGMA & APEL accounting system
Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture
An information and monitoring system for static and dynamic information about grid resources, applications and networks
Accounting Processor for Event Logs
Provides a summary of the resources consumed based on attributes such as CPU time, Wall Clock Time, Memory and grid user identity

21. GridPP & Industry Current Involvement
HP are sponsoring a joint project with GridPP at Bristol.
GridPP has an association with IBM through collaboration on ScotGrid and R-GMA.
Specific sites also have close relationships with various industrial suppliers.

22. GridPP & Industry Current Involvement
Posters at “Technology Opportunities from CERN: the impact of Big Physics on Industry”.
Attended KITE club meetings on:
Healthcare,
Medical image processing
Film and computer games
Speakers at a forum on Network and Grid Security organised for the IT industry.

23. Future
Plan to establish a small steering group to lead technology transfer activity.
The group, working with various companies, would examine different methods of technology transfer and identify the GridPP activities that can be used in industry and business.
Examples of methods of technology transfer include: CERN’s openlab programme; the EGEE Industry Forum; HP’s collaboration with Bristol; PPARC’s industry awards scheme and the DTI Technology Programme