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GRIDS Center

Grid Research Integration Development & Support

http://www.grids-center.org

Chicago - NCSA – SDSC - USC/ISI - Wisconsin

Part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) www.grids-center.org

GRIDS

GRIDS, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)

• The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (Carl Kesselman)

• The University of Chicago (Ian Foster)

• The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Randy Butler)

• The University of California at San Diego (Phil Papadoupolus)

• The University of Wisconsin at Madison (Miron Livny)

http://www.grids-center.org/index.htm


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Enabling Seamless Collaboration

GRIDS will help distributed communities pursue common goals

Scientific research Engineering design Education Artistic creation

Focus is on the enabling mechanisms required for collaboration

Resource sharing as a fundamental concept



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Grid Computing Rationale

The need for flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resource

See “The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations” by Foster,

Kesselman, Tuecke at http://www.globus.org (in the “Publications” section)

The need for communities (“virtual organizations”) to share geographically distributed resources as they pursue common goals while assuming the absence of:

central location central control omniscience existing trust relationships



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Elements of Grid Computing

Resource sharing Computers, storage, sensors, networks Sharing is always conditional, based on issues of trust,

policy, negotiation, payment, etc.

Coordinated problem solving Beyond client-server: distributed data analysis,

computation, collaboration, etc.

Dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations Community overlays on classic org structures Large or small, static or dynamic



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Resource-SharingMechanisms

• Should address security and policy concerns of resource owners and users

• Should be flexible and interoperable enough to deal with many resource types and sharing modes

• Should scale to large numbers of resources, participants, and/or program components

• Should operate efficiently when dealing with large amounts of data & computational power



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Grid ApplicationsScience portals

Help scientists overcome steep learning curves of installing and using new software

Solve advanced problems by invoking sophisticated packages remotely from Web browsers or "thin clients”

Portals are currently being developed in biology, fusion, computational chemistry, and other disciplines

Distributed computing High-speed workstations and networks can yoke

together an organization's PCs to form a substantial computational resource

E.g., U.S. and Italian mathematicians pooled resources for one week, aggregating 42,000 CPU-days to solve "Nug30"


Grid Portals

http://www.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/

Community = 1000s of home

computer users Philanthropic

computing vendor (Entropia)

Research group (Scripps)

Common goal= advance AIDS research

Distributed Computing to Evaluate AIDS Drugs


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More Grid ApplicationsLarge-scale data analysis

Science increasingly relies on large datasets that benefit from distributed computing and storage

E.g., the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will generate many petabytes of data from high-energy physics experiments, with single-site storage impractical for technical and political reasons

Computer-in-the-loop instrumentation Data from telescopes, synchrotrons, and electron

microscopes are traditionally archived for batch processing

Grids are permitting quasi-real-time analysis that enhances the instruments’ capabilities

E.g., with sophisticated “on-demand” software, astronomers may be able to use automated detection techniques to zoom in on solar flares as they occur


Large-scale Data Analysis


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Still More Grid Applications

Collaborative work Researchers often want to aggregate not only data

and computing power, but also human expertise Grids enable collaborative problem formulation and

data analysis E.g., an astrophysicist who has performed a large,

multi-terabyte simulation could let colleagues around the world simultaneously visualize the results, permitting real-time group discussion

E.g., civil engineers collaborate to design, execute, & analyze shake table experiments


Collaboration via Online Access to Scientific Instruments


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Grids and IndustryGrid computing has much in common with major industrial thrusts

Business-to-business, Peer-to-peer, Application Service Providers, Storage Service Providers, Distributed Computing, Internet Computing, etc.

Outsourcing increases decentralization of resources

Sharing issues are not adequately addressed by existing technologies

Complicated requirements: “run program X at site Y subject to community policy P, providing access to data at Z according to policy Q”

Companies like IBM, Platform Computing and Microsoft are getting substantively involved with the open-source Grid community (e.g., web services and Grid services)


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eBusiness Grids

• Engineers at a multinational company collaborate on the design of a new product

• A multidisciplinary analysis in aerospace couples code and data in four companies

• An insurance company mines data from partner hospitals for fraud detection

• An application service provider offloads excess load to a compute cycle provider

• An enterprise configures internal & external resources to support eBusiness workload


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GRIDS and the NSF Middleware Initiative

GRIDS is one of two NMI teams; the other is EDIT

NMI seeks standard components and mechanisms Authentication, authorization, policy Resource discovery and directory Remote access of computers, data, instruments

Also seeks: Integration with end-user tools (conferencing, data

analysis, data sharing, distributed computing, etc.) Integration with campus infrastructures Integration with commercial technologies


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GRIDS Deliverablesfor NMI Release 1.0

On May 7, NMI Release 1.0 was issued (see www.nsf-middleware.org), including deliverables from the GRIDS and EDIT teams

GRIDS software in NMI-R1 will include new versions of:

Globus Toolkit™ Condor-G Network Weather Service package also includes KX.509


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The Globus Toolkit™The de facto standard for Grid computing

A modular “bag of technologies” addressing key technical problems facing Grid tools, services and applications

Made available under liberal open source license Simplifies collaboration across virtual organizations

Authentication Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)

Scheduling Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM) Dynamically Updated Request Online Coallocator (DUROC)

File transfer Global Access to Secondary Storage (GASS) GridFTP

Resource description Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS)


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Condor-G High performance computing (HPC) is often measured

in operations per second; with high throughput computing (HTC), Condor permits increased processing capacity over longer periods of time

CPU cycles/day (week, month, year?) under non-ideal circumstances

“How many times can I run simulation X in a month using all available machines?”

The Condor Project develops, deploys, and evaluates mechanisms and policies for HTC on large collections of distributed systems

NMI-R1 will include Condor-G, an enhanced version of the core Condor software optimized to work with Globus Toolkit™ for managing Grid jobs


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Network Weather Service From UC Santa Barbara, NWS monitors and dynamically

forecasts performance of network and computational resources

Uses a distributed set of performance sensors (network monitors, CPU monitors, etc.) for instantaneous readings

Numerical models’ ability to predict conditions is analogous to weather forecasting – hence the name

For use with the Globus Toolkit and Condor, allowing dynamic schedulers to provide statistical Quality-of-Service readings

NWS forecasts end-to-end TCP/IP performance (bandwidth and latency), available CPU percentage and available non-paged memory

NWS automatically identifies the best forecasting technique for any given resource


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KX.509 for Converting Kerberos Certificates to PKI

Stand-alone client program from the University of Michigan

For a Kerberos-authenticated user, KX.509 acquires a short-term X.509 certificate that can be used by PKI applications

Stores the certificate in the local user's Kerberos ticket file Systems that already have a mechanism for removing

unused kerberos credentials may also automatically remove the X.509 credentials

Web browser may then load a library (PKCS11) to use these credentials for https

The client reads X.509 credentials from the user’s Kerberos cache and converts them to PEM, the format used by the Globus Toolkit


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GRIDS Integration Issues

Ten NMI testbed sites will be early adopters, seeking integration of enterprise and Grid computing

Eight sites to be announced soon by SURA Two further sites: CalTech and USC

Via NMI partnerships, GRIDS will help identify points of intersection and divergence between Grid and enterprise computing

Directory services Authorization, authentication and security Emphasis is on open standards and architectures

as the route to successful collaboration

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