The DutchGrid Platform – An Overview – 1

DutchGrid today and tomorrow

David Groep, NIKHEF

2003-07-03

The DutchGrid PlatformLarge-scale Distributed Computing in the Netherlands

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DutchGrid

Open “platform” of interested parties

Goals• Expertise coordination• Provide core national services• Developer and end-user support• Test bed• Dissemination

Currently 12 organisations and growing

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Participants From related projects & interested organisations Resource and service providers:

Natl. Computing Facilities Foundation

own test beds, EDG services

Distributed ASCI Supercomputer-2

WTCW Virtual Lab / VL E-Science

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Participants contd

Many more on application side:

e-business

medical imaging

meteo &climate

bio informatics

(radio) astronomyVLBI

materials science

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Some Applications

Virtual Laboratorycomprehensive analysis environments for experimentation

Chemo-physical surface analysis (PIXE,FT-IR,SIMS) correlating “omics” databases Virtual Surgery (planning by-passes, artery repairs)

Particle Physics DØ, Atlas, LHCb, AliceCommon Application Layer: Monte-Carlo and Analysis

OPERA – KNMI: ozone monitoring and mapping space data integration and validation

(radio) AstronomyLOFAR, AVO, VLBI – semi-online and offline processing

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Services

Authentication Service (CA)• Serves entire NL scientific community

DataGrid, CrossGrid, VL-E, DAS-2, …• Member of EDG CACG PMA

Support Desk• Installation support• End-user help desk

gives insight in requirements and real needs

Tutorials

Test bed coordination

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Test Bed Resources

ASCI ‘DAS-2’ systems (university CS)• 400 CPUs, homogeneous clusters at 5 sites

NIKHEF and LCG test bed• 150 CPUs• 3 TByte disk cache

NCF Grid Initiative• Fabric Research: 66 systems• Production setup: 64 CPUs• Network research 10 Gb/s• Storage access

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Resources cntd

SARA: the national HPC centre• Tape-based mass store: 500 TByte• 30 GByte disk cache• 1024 CPU SGI Origin 3800 MPP

Summary• ~ 8 people in deployment and operations• Match infrastructures to real application usage

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Dutch Grid Sites

KNMI

KUNijmegen

TUDelft

ULeiden

VU

UUtrecht

TelinNIKHEFSARAUvAAMOLF

DutchGrid site map 20030702David Groep, NIKHEF

ASTRON, JIVE

Philips NatLab

Amsterdam

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Interconnect

All Dutch Grid sites linked to SURFnet5• 10 Gb/s backbone• National DWDM • Links to Géant,

US, CZ, CERN

Customer links• 1-2 Gb/s• IPv4 and IPv6• JIVE on 5 Gb/s!

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Developments

DutchGrid role in future deployment in NL

Test bed activities• Creating comprehensive environments• Support for application scientists• Integration and validation

Service hosting for ‘ad-hoc’ collaborations

Close integration with DSCs

Dissemination

… expanding into NEG context

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Summary

Research, applications and deployment

Strong coordination

Diverse applications

Diverse resources

Expanding rapidly!

www.dutchgrid.nl

www.cs.vu.nl/das2 grid.sara.nl www.surfnet.nl

www.nikhef.nl/grid www.nwo.nl/ncf