1. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-GRID CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 The german Grid initiative A platform for e-Science in Germany Dr. Harald Kornmayer Institut for Scientific Computing Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe for the whole D-Grid initiative

2. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 2 Agenda e-Science in Germany D-Grid initiative Community projects D-Grid Integration project Summary and Outlook

3. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 3 Grid projects in the past Many german research institutions participated in various Grid projects Germany was strongly involved in the development of UNICORE middleware and much more…. National Grid initiative were started by many countries (small  large) But Germany was still a „white“ area on the Grid map

4. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 4 D-Grid – 2001 to 2004 Some activities on national level: –2001: At Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GridKa is launched as a large Grid computing center for LHC computing www.gridka.de www.gridka.de –2002: The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) disseminated "IT-2006", a funding programme for enhancing the Information Technology in Germany www.it2006.de www.it2006.de –2002-2003: The idea of a national Grid emerged from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe – including the name “D-Grid” - and many institutions joined this initiative www.d-grid.de www.d-grid.de

5. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 5 D-Grid to e-Science ~300 scientists from ~100 institutions contributed All aspects of e-Science discussed  A „white paper“ was presented to the ministry „e-Science in Germany“ This paper became the base for the BMBF funding programme „e-Science“ covers three areas: - Grid computing - Knowledge management - e-Learning

6. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 6 Knowledge management & e-Learning Knowledge Management –IT based handling and management of information and knowledge –Open access to scientific information –eSciDoc (FIZ Karlsruhe & Max-Planck-Society) 6 million Euro, 09/2004 - 08/2009 –More projects in the pipeline (Ontoverse, WISENT, …) e-Learning –e-Learning = Using new media in university teaching –Seeking methods for enhancing innovation potential given by e-Learning and e-Teaching techniques within universities 40 million Euro, 01/2005 - 12/2007  a general platform needed  D-Grid

7. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 7 Generic platform and generic Grid services e-Science architecture Grid Computing Knowledge management e-Learning OntoverseWikinger WISEM … AstronomyClimate Lifescience … High engery physics Engineering D-Grid integration project Project 1Project 2 … e-Science

8. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 8 D-Grid – goals The D-Grid initiative should : provide very soon a nationwide reliable, sustainable and robust Grid infrastructure – build around the “Kern-D-Grid“ (Core-D- Grid) develop this “Kern-D-Grid” to an infrastructure for all e-Science applications demonstrate the usability of Grids for (at least) six different communities Contribute in the development of Grid middleware and tools by integrating the needs of the scientific communities (re-)use existing technical and middleware solutions from the international context (e.g. GGF, EGEE, UNICORE) ….. Longterm goal: "Services for Scientists"

9. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 9 D-Grid - projects Community Grids Integration Project Generic Grid Middleware and Grid Services Grid specific Developments High Energy Physics CG Middle- ware Grid specific Developments Grid specific Developments Grid specific Developments Grid specific Developments Astrophysics Medicine and Lifesciences Climate Research Engineering Applications CG Middle- ware CG Middle- ware CG Middle- ware CG Middle- ware Grid specific Developments Social Science CG Middle- ware …. Today: 7 projects 6 Community projects: Astropyhsics, Climate research, Medicine, Engineering, HEP, social science D-Grid integration project (DGI) to build a general platform for e-Science in Germany

10. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 10 AstroGrid-D Goals: Creation of an nation wide collaborative environment for astronomical research institutions using Grid technology Setup and operating of a Grid infrastructure for the Astro-Community to optimize the usage of the existing resources Establishing the access to distributed astronomical data archive Integration of astronomical instruments and experiments in the reseach infrastructure Close collaboration with the international Virtual observatory

11. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 11 Workpackages: Management Resource integration Meta data management Distributed data management Distributed data base access and distributedd data flows Resource management for Grid-jobs Job-monitoring and interaktive job steering User interface and Grid application toolkit AstroGrid-D Technology: Gridshpere Workflow Engine from the Planck satellite mission (Process Coordinator ProC) Cactus … International Projects: Planck satellite Lofar – radio astronomy VO - Virtual Observatories LIGO – Gravitational waves Numerical relativity ….

12. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 12 C3-Grid C3-Grid = Collaborative Climate Community Grid Goals: Access to distributed climate data archives Establishing scientfic workflows in earth science community Setup of a productive Grid infrastructure for climate research in Germany Integration of existing heterogenous systems (computing and data) Enable global cooperation

13. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 13 C3-Grid Scientific Workflows: Modelling of earth systems (Climate, Oceans, Biosphere) Acquisition of measuring data (classical measurement, satellites) Comparisons of models and measurements model A and model B Access to Data essential!! Meta data distributed archives Long term availability of data must be guaranteed!! Workpackages: User interfaces Grid Information services Access to distributed local databases/meta data bases Preprocessing of data Grid data management Grid scheduling C3 Grid infrastructure Substainable integration Project management

14. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 14 HEP-Grid Goals: Development of applications and components for the analysis of data of international high energy physics and astroparticle physics experiments in a national Grid environment Integrating with the exisiting Tier-structure of LCG Development of components for data analysis using Grid resources Strengthen the participation in international Grid projects –Use of the gLite middleware from the EGEE project Three main focus: –Data management –Tools for job monitoring and automatic support –Distributed data analysis by end users („physisist“)

15. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 15 InGrid Innovative Grid developments for engineering science applications Goals: –Common use and community specific development of Grid environments for engineering applications –Efficient use of common resources for: Modelling Simulation Optimisation –Basic and application research –Strong cooperation with industry

16. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 16 InGrid Applications: Five different engineering domains Foundry industry Metal forming Flow physics Transportation processes in ground water Magneto-hydrodynamics coupling Methods and models: Engineering specific problems should be solved on the Grid Knowledge based support for decision processes Support for engineer specifc workflows distributed simulation based optimisation of products and processes Grid specific developments: Security- and Trust models in economic scenarios Cooperation- and Business models Licensing

17. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 17 MediGrid Goals: Demonstrate the usability of Grid services for medicine and life science by connecting large and high dimensional data sets Setup of a Grid environment for medical research Transfer of project results into the generic D- Grid platform MediGrid is open for new medical applications

18. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 18 MediGrid Workpackages : Project management Ontology tools Resource fusion Middleware Enhanced Trust and Security Medical e-Science framework Legal aspects Biometric aspects of highly dimensional data DGI C Ressourcenfusion B Ontologie A Koordinierung Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata Data Zugriffskontrolle D Middleware... H eScience,Sicherheit, Internationalität E Biomed. Informatik F Bildver- arbeitung G Klinische Forschung E Klassische BioInformatik Nach Machbarkeit gepipelinede Projekte Weitere, z.B. Forst- oder Geistes- Wissen- schaften Clinical research Biomedical informatics Image processing

19. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 19 TextGrid Goals: Establish a community Grid for text based science (social science) to support –tools for edition workd –modules for text data processing –the definition of standardized interfaces to publication software –modules to controll and monitor access to text data and text data tools TextGrid will be a part of Semantic Grid Funding just approved –From a different department in ministry

20. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 20 DGI - D-Grid Integration project Integration of new developments from the D-Grid communities developments of other projects (UNICORE, EGEE,...) to establish a generic platform for e-Science which contains the software stack needed by the communites provides a reliable and sustainable Grid infrastructure  Kern-D-Grid offers Grid services for new application domains to reach the longterm vision of „Grid, knowledge and e-Learning services for Scientists“

21. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 21 DGI – Integration procedure Idea: development of new and enhanced services in the Communtiy Grid (CG) projects Generalisation of services and integration into the common D-Grid platform will be done by the DGI together with the CGs Integration Project Community OneCommunity TwoCommunity Three Working Groups: DGI will coordinate different groups together with the CGs Grid scheduling Data & Meta data management VO management AAI Security Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3

22. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 22 DGI – FG1: Middleware & tools Middleware: Globus 4.x gLite (LCG) UNICORE GAT and GridSphere Data Management: SRM/dCache OGSA-DAI Meta data schemas VO Management: VOMS and Shibboleth Tasks: Support communites –with training –with installation packages –with support for new operating systems Coordinate together with communites the development of new tools –Prevent „reinventing the wheel“

23. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 23 DGI - Infrastructure Kern-D-Grid -Integrate all participating resources and providers -Operate the Kern-D-Grid -including User Support -Provide monitoring and accouting tools for all middleware platforms -prepare the accounting and – later – billing -Contribute to the development of a general resource description language -Offer services for new communites FZJ/ZAMIBM-Supercomputer mit 8,5 TFlops STK-Datenroboter mit 2,2 PByte 32 CPUs 300 TByte FZK/IWR8 Knoten Opteron 2x2.2 GHz 8 Prozessoren einer NEC SX-5 eine p630 mit vier Prozessoren eine SX-6i für Tests 2 Knoten Opteron 2x2.2 GHz für Tests 100% 50% LRZSGI-Höchstleistungsrechner mit ca. 20 TFlop/s, Intel IA32 und IA 64-Cluster, IBM p690, SunFire 80 5% von allen MPI/RZGIBM Supercomputer mit 4,5 TFlops, PC-Cluster mit 2 TFlops Datenroboter mit 8 Pbyte 32 CPUs 400 TByte PC²Cluster mit ca. 400 Xeon 64 Bit CPUs, Hochleistungsvisualisierung und FPGAs 10% RWTH/RZ2 SunFire 6900 mit je 24 UltraSPARC IV100% TU- Dresden/ZIH SGI O2K(56 Proz)/O3K(192 Proz) : T3E (64 Proz): PC-Cluster mit ca. 30 CPUs, ab 2005 neues System mit 1000 Prozessoren 10% 20% 2% Uni-H/RRZNPC-Cluster mit 64 CPUsassoz. Uni-KAPC-Poolassoz. FHG/ITWMassoz. PC² RRZN TUD RZG LRZ RWTH FZJ FZK FHG/ ITWM Uni-KA

24. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 24 DGI – Network & Security Goals: Extend the existing German network by Grid specific elements Evaluate alternative network transport protocols Build and operate an infrastructure for authorisation and authentication (AAI) Evaluate and/or develop Grid suitable firewall concepts Provide a Grid specific CERT team –CERT = Computer Emergency Response Team)

25. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 25 DGI – Management & Sustainablity Tasks: Coordinate the integration procedures within the DGI Coordinate the cooperation between the DGI and the community projects Establish connections between D-Grid and knowledge management/e-Learing Support new applications domains to the Grid Evalute methods for facilitating sustainability Sustainablity: Take the different roles into account evaluate the legal framework concerning sustainability SUSTAIN- ABILITY User/virtual organisation Resource provider/ Research computing center Funding agency

26. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 26 D-Grid – collaborations D-Grid will/wants collaborate with many other projects –EGEE –DEISA –Globus –other national initiatives –… D-Grid will contribute to standards –GGF, … D-Grid will disseminate the results to new user communities D-Grid want to start an effort together with industry –In 2006, a call is expected to encourage „e-Science service providers“ (commerical or academic) to propose long term solutions for „e-Science services“

27. Dr. Harald Kornmayer D-Grid CGW 05, 22-Nov-2005 27 Conclusion and Outlook D-Grid started finally in September 2005 –and successfully!! Grid technology will be established in (at least) six scientific communities All e-Science domains will work in a close collaboration DGI will provide a general infrastructure for e- Science All three e-Science domains will organize the “German e-Science Conference" (Nov. 22 - 24, 2006, Baden-Baden) First results of the D-Grid initiative will come soon!! All the work presented is funded by the BMBF