1. Project “DUBNA-GRID” Victor Ivanov DUBNA-GRID
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Project “DUBNA-GRID”
Victor Ivanov
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

2. Strizh T.A., Cheremisina E.N.
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Creation of a multi-purpose network of distributed computing of a town scale
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Project “DUBNA-GRID”
Zrelov P.V., Ivanov V.V., Ivanov Valeri V. ,
Korenkov V.V., Kryukov Yu.A., Rats A.A.,
Ryabov E.B., Smirnov Yu.S, Smirnova O.G.,
Strizh T.A., Cheremisina E.N.
International Conference
“Distributed Computing and Grid-Technologies in Science and Education”
Dubna, 29 June – 2 July, 2004
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

3. DUBNA-GRID Agreement between Administration of Dubna,
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Agreement
between
Administration of Dubna,
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
International University of Nature, Society and Man “DUBNA”
Subject: Creation of a city multi-purpose informational infrastructure
of the new generation based on the Grid-technology
, Dubna
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

4. Chkhaberidze D., Kalmikova L.A.
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Project Participants (July 2005):
Antonov A.N., Belyakov D.V., Golub D.C.,
Dobromyslov C.N., Dolbilov A.G., Mitsin V.V.
Zrelov P.V., Ivanov V.V., Ivanov Valeri V. ,
Korenkov V.V., Kryukov Yu.A., Popov L.A.,
Rats A.A., Ryabov E.B., Smirnov Yu.S,
Smirnova O.G., Strizh T.A., Cheremisina E.N.,
Chkhaberidze D., Kalmikova L.A.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

5. DUBNA-GRID 1. Grant of the town of Dubna
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1. Grant of the town of Dubna
“Creation of a basic facility of high-performance computations Dubna-Grid”
2. Grant of the town of Dubna for the years
“for high-skilled specialists of Dubna scientific and industrial complex on the Programme of the development of the City of Science”
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

6. Main purposes of the project
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Main purposes of the project
The “Dubna-Grid” Project is aimed at the creation of a distributed environment of metacomputing on the basis of non-loaded computing resources of “office” computers. The project foresees creation of a common pool of accessible nodes of more than 1200 units.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

7. DUBNA-GRID Implementation of the “Dubna-Grid” project will allow:
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Implementation of the “Dubna-Grid” project will allow:
to create a unified computing environment of the city of Dubna (metacluster) on the basis of the resources of scientific, research and educational institutions, in particular, JINR subdivisions, University
“Dubna”, secondary schools and other organizations concerned;
to create a segment of the international Grid-infrastructure, operating in frames of various Grid systems (LGG, NorduGrid and OSG). To perform research of control, security and stability within the Grid environment.
to provide execution of large-scale computing tasks of JINR and other enterprises of Dubna scientific – industrial complex and other organizations concerned;
to distribute experience of creation of the city segment of the Grid-infrastructure for creation of similar systems in other Russian cities.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

8. DUBNA-GRID Motivation of the participating organizations
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Motivation of the participating organizations
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is interested in attraction of additional computing resources in order to conduct research work in frames both the current experiments and the experiments that are being prepared at the LHC accelerator at CERN – ATLAS, ALICE, CMS.
The University “Dubna” has a wide program of the development of the educational process and the training of specialists for work with advanced information technologies. In addition, the university is interested in organizing a scientific – research programme with participation of students and post-graduates of both the university “Dubna” and the JINR University Center on the issues related to information technologies.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

9. DUBNA-GRID Motivation of the participating organizations
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Motivation of the participating organizations
The city of Dubna as a City of Science, is interested in creation of informational – computational infrastructure for high-technology production and scientific research as well as for using the information technologies for the solving of tasks of various spheres of the city life. The solving of such tasks in frames of the city structure may be planned for the first time in the world practice.
The University of Lund (Sweden) and Chicago (USA) are interested in a joint testing and using of the Grid systems for the tasks of real data processing. Besides, in order to improve the available systems in the future, additional project participants and extension of cooperation in the area of software development are required.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

10. Main measures of the Project
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Main measures of the Project
The creation of the Grid-segment is realized on the basis of available network, information and computing resources of the city of Dubna and other scientific and educational institutions.
The regulation of the activities of the parties participating in the Project requires taking into account their specific character.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

11. Administration of the city of Dubna
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Administration of the city of Dubna
provides an informational – educational network with a total number of computers of almost 500 units (in addition to its main purpose);
provides a municipal data link;
modernizes the computers operating within the Project;
takes part in funding the creation of the 1 Gbps computer communication link Moscow - Dubna.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

12. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
develops and organizes a testing exploitation of the test-bed architecture (the infrastructure that provides solutions for scaling and replication) ;
provides certification (receiving a passport of the equipment and passports for the main performers of the work) for work in the international Grid systems;
installs various Grid systems on the test-bed sites;
installs a united Grid laboratory for research in the field of Grid technologies and organization of training specialists of a corresponding profile;
purchases equipment required for creation of a managing servers pool;
builds up the 1 Gbps data link Moscow – Dubna.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

13. University “Dubna” DUBNA-GRID
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University “Dubna”
provides creation of a server center for the maintenance of the university segment of the Grid infrastructure;
provides 500 computers from the university network (apart from their main purpose);
takes part in working out the course on studying the Grid technologies and training specialists in frames of the joint Grid-laboratory;
develops new information – retrieval systems based on the Grid technologies for electronic libraries of Dubna and Moscow region.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

14. DUBNA-GRID Network resources of the Project City of Dubna JINR
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Network resources of the Project
City of Dubna
JINR
100 Mbps JINR – University channel
100 Mbps university – schools channels
Bridges and gates in the University and the city network structure
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

15. Hardware resources of the Project
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Hardware resources of the Project
Server for maintenance of the meta-cluster infrastructure
Server for separating the networks of the Project “Dubna-Grid”, schools and classes of the University
Computing nodes (146 units have been configured) in computer classes of the university and city schools
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

16. Software resources of the Project
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Software resources of the Project
OS – “Scientific Linux CERN”, current version305 – works on servers and virtual machines of the computing nodes
Software support of the virtual machines – Vmware, current version – 4.5.2
Cluster environment - a modified variant of “Warewulf Cluster Toolkit”, current version – 2.2.3
Grid Software (hasn’t been installed yet)
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

17. DUBNA-GRID WEB resources of the Project
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WEB resources of the Project
Web-site of the Project can be found at
It contains sections with common information about the Project, a constantly amended section of news and information on the partners
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

18. DUBNA-GRID WEB resources of the Project Monitoring system
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WEB resources of the Project
Monitoring system
Information on the current state of the metacluster Dubna-GRID is available at
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19. Test infrastructure at JINR
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Test infrastructure at JINR
Creation of the test complex (the Grid test-bed) is in frames of the joint Grid laboratory “GridLab” organized at LIT JINR.
The test-bed is required in order to give a work-out to the system of automatic scaling of the cluster nodes, check-up and test exploitation of new versions of the software for nodes and servers of the meta-cluster, development of system of measuring the meta-cluster performance.
A premise has been equipped, a server and 6 nodes have been ordered, regulations of the GridLab are being elaborated.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

20. Test infrastructure at JINR (Tasks)
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Test infrastructure at JINR (Tasks)
Installation of software analogous to that installed in the computer classes of the city schools and in the University “Dubna” in frames of the “Dubna-Grid” Project.
Installation of software LCG and OSG and integration with the JINR UC test infrastructure (NorduGrid).
Working out regulations on the structure and the rules of operating the GridLAb.
Studying of the methods of laboratory work (practical training).
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

21. Main parameters of the Project
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Main parameters of the Project
Terms of realization of the Project 2004 – 2007.
Main parameters:
Total performance of the city metacluster 2 Teraflop
A number of the metacluster nodes 1500 units
Length of the city network highway 32 km
Total memory on hard disks:
30 Tbyte (server disk array)
30 Tbyte (distributed disk array)
RAM of one Grid node 1 Gbyte
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

22. The Project parameters dynamics
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The Project parameters dynamics
Parameters/years
2005
2006
2007
Number of nodes involved
200
900
1500
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

23. Main stages of realization of the Project
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Main stages of realization of the Project
installation of a pool of computing nodes which are under a unified administration in the common address space;
development of technologies on realization of a separate administration of office computers and nodes of the Grid infrastructure on the basis of software shells of virtual machines;
creation of a metacluster prototype integrating resources of various organizations;
development of mass installation technologies and spreading software to all accessible nodes of the city infrastructure;
installation of various Grid systems at the metacluster nodes and accordance of these resources to the users of other Grid projects such as LCG, NorduGrid, EGEE, OSG etc.
Training of specialists in the field of Grid technologies. Holding seminars, giving lectures and demonstrations.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

24. Plans for the 2005 DUBNA-GRID
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Plans for the 2005
Increase of the total number of nodes up to 200 units;
Perfection of the distributed computing technology;
Creation of a system for monitoring the metacluster status;
Put into operation of the 1Gbps Dubna – Moscow data link;
Performance of test large-scale computations on the examples of large problems in the field of high energy particle physics, nuclear physics and biology;
Creation of mass memory systems;
Carrying out service tests of the performance of the system “Dubna-Grid”;
Creation of a unified control point of fire-alarm and video observation of the computer classes of the city;
Creation of a test-bed segment at LIT JINR (the GridLab);
Organization of a center of the technical support of the hardware and networking infrastructure of secondary schools;
Study of the question of participating ORACLE, INTEL and IBM companies in the Project.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

25. Organization problems
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Organization problems
Provision of round-the-clock operation of the metacluster nodes.
The round-the-clock operation (kids work in the classes) requires control over temperature in the premise and installation of an improved ventilation or air-conditioning system as well as solution of the problem of a high-level noise in the room.
Training of system administrators of computer classes.
The introduction of the software that is unknown for the system administrators of school classes as well as impossibility of determining the cause of failure in the operation of the equipment bring additional disorder to the current exploitation of the classes and holding regular lessons in them. That is why the training of school teachers in the foundations of the Grid technologies is a necessary condition of further successful work.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

26. Organization problems
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Organization problems
Necessity of setting up fire-alarm networks and organization of a round-the-clock monitoring in frames of the whole city.
The maintenance of round-the-clock work of the classes at the absence of visual control over the equipment at night requires development and introduction of fire-alarm networks as well as organization of a
round-the-clock duty for monitoring the status of all computers of the
city network used for computations.
NEC-2005, Varna, Bulgaria

27. Thank you for your attention!
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Thank you for your attention!
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