nikhef jamboree 2008 big grid update jan just keijser
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Nikhef Jamboree 2008
BiG Grid Update
Jan Just Keijser
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What is BiG Grid?• The “BiG” in the name is the acronym for
• Budget voor• Investeringen in• Grootschalige onderzoeksfaciliteiten
(Budget for Investment in Large research facilities)
• Of course, “Grid” is the acronym for• Google’s• Really• Impressive• Euh… Dingetje(everything Google does is impressive, right?)
• So yes, we’re talking about a really, really big grid.
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Seriously, what’s BiG Grid ?• in late 2005, Nikhef, together with partners NCF (the
Dutch national foundation for computer facilities) and NBIC (the Netherlands BioInformatics Centre) were awarded a M€ 28 grant to build and operate a Dutch national grid infrastructure, and to support Dutch scientists in their use of this infrastructure.(from “Nikhef Annual Report 2008”, probably page 10)
• That’s a lot of money, but it’s needed for• Hardware (Computing and Storage resources)• Peopleware (system administration, maintenance)• Electricity and cooling• Facilitating data-intensive sciences such as LHC
and LOFAR• Attracting new fields of science to make use of this
national grid infrastructure
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Who’s involved in BiG Grid ?• Board of Directors
• Frank Linde• Peter Michielse (NCF)• Bob Hertzberger (NBIC)
• Executive Team (Nikhef members)• Arjen van Rijn• Jeff Templon• David Groep
• Application Analysts• Dennis van Dok• Mischa Sallé• Jan Just Keijser• <open positions>
• BiG Grid Operations (Nikhef members)• Ronald Starink• Sven Gabriel• Tristan Suerink
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Where does the money go?
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New Fields of Science• Why is attracting new fields of science to the grid so
important?It will be one of the key factors that determines the
success of BiG GridIf BiG Grid is not a success then future investments
for grid, Tier-1’s etc will be much harder• How will we attract these new fields of science?
New website and programme are being developed right now
Scientists will be able to apply for BiG Grid funding through NWO IRIS
“Funding” means help in getting your application onto the grid, it is not intended for appointing aio’s, postdocs etc.
Much more to come in 2009…
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BiG Grid applications: KNAW/DANSData Archiving and Network Services
Data from national libraries Data from archiving services Linguistic data (e.g. old texts)
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BiG Grid applications: KNMI/SciaGrid• Process data from Sciamachy satellite• Couples data at KNMI and SRON with processing
facilities at Nikhef and SARA• First Dutch grid application that makes use of a
robot certificate
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BiG Grid project: LOFAR data archive● LOw Frequency ARray radio
astronomy telescope, currently being deployed in the Netherlands and Germany
● First phase (ongoing): Design of the data archive
● The data archive will contain the scientific results of the LOFAR telescope and make these available to researchers in the Netherlands and later across the globe.
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BiG Grid project: MPI/SURFnet• Pilot project on Single Signon• Will enable psycholinguistics researchers to
safely connect to their grid infrastructures, even when located at an internet cafe
• First step in getting rid of user grid certificates
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But don’t forget:Of course we’re also here for the LHC and APP experiments!
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Future applications• eNMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance research• Bio-Diversity• Closer cooperation with NBIC/BioAssist
programme• Focus is on , -sciences• BiG Grid smart card (in –testing)
In general we will be looking for:• New applications• New fields of science• New problems the least of our worries
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Future Directions
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Questions?