1. TRASC Globus Application Launcher VPAC Development Team Sudarshan Ramachandran

2. Overview Current Grid Activities Globus Application Launcher Future Plans

3. Current Grid Activities  Grid Middleware UNICORE Globus Toolkit  Installation How To Globus 1.1.4, 2, 2.2  Grid Applications TRASC  GrangeNet Access Grid Node  Clusters How to Build Linux Clusters MOSIX Visualization Cluster vpac.org

4. VPAC Grid 4 CPUs AlphaServer SC Tru64 2 CPUs Digital AlphaStation Tru64 12 CPUs Cluster Intel Xeon Red Hat Linux 2 CPUs Intel PII Red Hat Linux

5. TRASC Gateway to the grid

6. Project Aims User friendly interface Platform independent Does not rely on the Java COG Jobs transparently transported Grid File Transfer Easy to Customize Real time load monitoring Collaborating with users and SC facilities

7. System Architecture Client and Server modules Mediator to Globus APIs SSL Communication Multiple Job Submissions Job status Output retrieval

9. Requirements  TRASC Daemon Globus Toolkit 2.0+  TRASC Client Platform Independent Java 2 SDK 1.4.0

10. Features Authentication Proxy Info Globus Ping Job Submission File Transfer SC Load Status

11. Job Submission On the fly file staging Conversion of command line into Globus RSL format Job status monitoring Output stream Quick Launch Buttons

12. Client Server

14. File Transfer Between the desktop and any grid machine Vice versa Faster than SCP 3 rd party transfers

16. VPAC SC Load 32 Nodes Customised Load Monitor

17. Outcomes Ability for people with limited grid knowledge to utilise available computing power Demonstrations –CC Grid 2002 –SC 2001, 2002 Customised Client Motivated others to set up their own Linux clusters to join our gird.

18. Future Goals Define TRASC Daemon APIs –Serial, parallel & parametric jobs –File transfers –Job monitors –LDAP information –Secure Environment

19. Other Interests Load Sharing Australian Certificate Authority Identify similar projects & interests

20. Further Information Web: VPAC Development Team http://www.vpac.org/VDT Email: Sudarshan Ramachandran sram@vpac.org