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1 Deploying Regional Grids Creates Interaction, Ideas, and Integration
Jerry Perez Research Associate Texas Tech University

2 Copyright Notice Copyright Jerry Perez, 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 Overview What is a computational grid? Types of computational grids
What is a regional grid? The anatomy of a regional grid What are the benefits of a regional grid? Interaction: example of regional grids: SURAgrid Ideas: How can we bring together different institutions to join a regional grid effort? Integration: How can we teach others to join regional grids effortlessly? What are the benefits of participating in a regional grid? Questions

4 What is a computational grid?
A grid is a collection of compute resources (Servers, desktop PCs, compute clusters, SANS, WANS, and other networked devices) connected to each other via network connections. An analogy would be the national power grid. Power is generated at different locations, but shared across the infrastructure. Compute grids share compute power in networked environments to leverage unused computing capabilities of underused computers. About 90% of cycles are unused in a typical lab setting. These unused computing cycles can be identified as “Lazy Assets”.

5 Types of computational grids
Global Grids: Multiple sites across domains, geographies and WANs. Supports multiple projects, supplies infrastructure for world spanning scientific projects. Regional Grids: Multiple owners, multiple file systems, VPN, defined by geography and research projects. Campus/Enterprise Grid: Multiple owners, typically campus departments working with local projects or research groups.

6 What is a Regional Grid? Regional grid may be made of campus grids or HPC clusters supplying CPU power to regional research efforts. These regional efforts will bring together faculty from other universities to share research and increase the frequency of research funding with other researchers through cross-country collaborative grid computing. SURAgrid and TIGRE are exploring the addition of campus grid CPU power to supply serial grid computing power. Middleware configuration, identity management, grid security, and access controls are active topics of developing regional grids.

7 The anatomy of a Regional Grid

8 Interaction: example of Regional Grids: SURAgrid and others
TIGRE (Texas Internet Grid Research and Education) (2 year state funded project) – Construction completed in 2007. OSG (Open Science Grid) - OSG's mission is to help satisfy the ever-growing computing and data management requirements of scientific researchers, especially collaborative science requiring high throughput computing. THEGrid (Texas High Energy Grid)-THEGrid is a project of HiPCAT to develop shared computing resources, data storage, and analysis tools for high energy particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear and cosmic ray physics in Texas and related fields. SURAgrid : next slide…

9 SURAgrid About SURAgrid
A open initiative in support of regional strategy and infrastructure development Applications of regional impact are key drivers Designed to support a wide variety of applications “Big science” but “smaller science” O.K. too! Applications beyond those typically expected on grids Instructional use, student exposure Open to what new user communities will bring On-ramp to national HPC & CI facilities (e.g., Teragrid) Built by, and building, a community of institutional collaborators

10 SURAgrid Portal

11 SURAgrid participants

12 Ideas: How can we bring together different institutions to join a Regional Grid effort?
Through conferences like this one! Through articles that demonstrate the benefits of regional grids. Georgia State is a good example.

13 By becoming a member of SURAgrid, Georgia State University saved money while gaining valuable computing resources GSU IT Director & SURAgrid Governance Chairman: Art Vandenberg SURAgrid member: Georgia State University HEADQUARTERS: Atlanta BUSINESS: Higher education HARDWARE: An IBM System p 575 with 12 nodes with eight dual-core 1.9 GHz IBM POWER5+ processors; an IBM Cluster 1350 with 40 dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core processors (320 cores) CHALLENGE: Meeting the increasing demands of its faculty and student researchers SOLUTION: Helping establish SURAgrid and becoming a member of the initiative to take advantage of a high-performance regional grid-computing environment

14 A quote from Art Vandenberg
Rather than individual institutions purchasing all of the computers, storage and sundry other computing equipment they need to meet the requirements of their users, they can purchase just parts of it and put it on a grid for others to use in exchange for their equipment—all at a much reduced price for each individual institution.

15 Current regional grid applications
Potentially the greatest contribution to the LHC Project Reference: CERN -

16 Current regional grid applications
Weather modeling

17 Current regional grid applications
Protein Folding

18 Integration: How can we teach others to join Regional Grids effortlessly?
The SURAgrid Technology Cookbook.

19 Sharing cyber-infrastructure education
Joining a Regional Grid such as SURAgrid requires the following: Requirements Preparations Introduction to a “one-button” grid installation software stack Installing the grid software stack Configuring the new grid system Installing Credentials Mapping users Configuring GSI SSH Starting services Instructions how to submit grid jobs Directions on getting help All of this can be found here:

20 What are the benefits of participating in a Regional Grid?
The Regional Grid can be an incubator for shared projects and programs Collaborative proposals among grid participants. “Developing Regional Grid Technology Support for TATRC Programs” (TATRC, ) “Creating a Catalyst Application Set for the Development of Large-Scale Multi-purpose Grid Infrastructure” (NSF SGER) Development of Corporate Partnership program For example: SURA IBM Partnership Initial discussions with: Sun, United Devices, Dell

21 Questions For more information, or to join SURAgrid:
For more information on the technical aspects of building and managing campus and regional grids:

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