1. “Lessens and plans with Super-clusters” Satoshi Sekiguchi Director, Grid Technology Research Center, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Also, a Sub-leader of NAREGI, and a member of Business Grid Executive board

2. Eligible user communities Providing computing resource is NOT service, but business Gov. won’t support running cost ! Owners has to pay its upkeep PWR consumption Operators (HW, MW, SW) Approx. 130M JPY/Year (1M Euro) Those who are eligible to pay a part of the cost for owners Education, and research institutes Supporting public organizations Private sectors having a contract with owners, or having a subcontract with a service provider In case of research purpose, there is likely an exception. need to develop an accounting model NOT pay-per-cycle, but pay-per-service Service Provider Resource Provider Data Center Private Univ. Private Int’l partner. contract $ $ mutual benefit collaboration sell/buy

3. Rights and liabilities Although a user owes a duty to pay, no one guarantees 24/7 operation best effort SLA: service level agreement to delete the relevant offending data and/or to suspend a specific service that causes the violation and/or to suspend access by the user with/without prior notification

4. Software Licensing Policy Consider to modify licensing policy Grid ASP, a business model, allows users to run their program on the machines somewhere in the VO. the program might be a commercial product Provisioned or on-Demand A commercial software may not allow anonymous access who is the owner of the software a service provider or a user Pay-per-use licensing model for the future grid world CPU service provider CPU user L L L portal CASE 1 CASE 2 CASE 3

5. AIST Super Cluster (Appearance image) M64 P32 Myrinet 10,800mm 10,200mm P32 : IBM eServer325 Opteron 2.0GHz, 6GB 2way x 1074 node Myrinet 2000 8.59TFlops /peak M64 : Intel Tiger 4 Madison 1.3GHz, 16GB 4way x 131 node Myrinet 2000 2.72TFlop s/peak F32 : Linux Networx Xeon 3.06GHz, 2GB 2way x 256+ node GbE 3.13TFlops /peak total 14.44TFlops/peak, 2928 CPUs