Nordic GRID Activities

NORDUnet 2003

Reykjavik - August 26 2003

John Renner Hansen

Niels Bohr Institute

Natural ScienceResearch Councils

DK SF S NNOS-N

Nordic Data Grid Facility

1. Create the basis for a common Nordic Data Grid Facility

2. Coordinate Nordic Grid

Activities

Core Group

Project Director

4 Post Doc.s

Steering Group 3 members per country

1 R.C. Civil Servant 2 Scientists

The Nordic GRID Dimension

Total budget 1M €for two years

Examples on Nordic and EU GRID projects with Nordic participation

Scandinavian Grid cooperationNordic Grid Consortium - NGC – Laboratory for Grid middleware and application development

NorduGrid - Nordic testbed for wide area computing and data handling

FP5 Projects

DataGrid - The project aims to enable access to geographically distributed computing power and storage facilities. CSC collaborates with HIP, Helsinki Institute of Physics (EU)

ENACTS- European Network for Advanced Computing Technology for Science (EU)

New EU FP6 initiatives

DEISA - Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

EGEE - Enabling Grids for E-Science and industry in Europe

REALISTE - Realistic Modelling in Environmental And Life Sciences Through Escience

BIGGER - BioInformatics and Genomics Grid for European Research GrATe - Grid Access Technologies

GARDEN – Creating high band width network infrastructure in Europe

GRID in SWEDEN

• for generic development of GRID technology in Sweden,

• for GRID calculations in broad range of scientific and technological applications in Sweden

• for participation in Nordic, European and World wide GRID development work.

Proposal and fund request for a Swedish Data GRID Test Bed to

Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation Swedish Research Council

Program for the Seminar on SweGrid for e-SciencePlace: Ångström Laboratory in Uppsala, Polhemssalen Time: Wednesday 9 April 2003 10.00-17.00 hrs

GRID applications in different research fields 1. Biomedical Sciences 2. Earth Sciences 3. Space and Astro Sciences4. High Energy Physics

http://www.swegrid.se/

GRID in DENMARK

Denmark

Two collaborating Grid projects• Danish Centre for Scientific Computing

– DCSC-Grid will span the four DCSC sites and thus unify the resources within DCSC

• Danish Centre for Grid Computing sponsored by the Danish Natural Science Research Council– Seeks to become the national Grid project– DCSC Grid will be a partner in DCGC– Implementation is based on the NorduGrid tool kit

Resources Denmark

• Grid computing: 2003: 200K dkk– Application for 7.5M dkk for three years

granted by the research council – Supercomputing: 16M dkk/year– Supercomputing centres will be connected to a

SC-GRID

GRID in NORWAY

Norway

• NOTUR Emerging Technologies on Grid Computing is the main mover– Oslo-Bergen “mini-Grid” in place– Trondheim and Tromsø should be joining– The end of the NOTUR program makes the

Grid future uncertain

Resources Norway

• Grid computing: 2003: 1M NOK

• Supercomputing: 22M NOK/year– Plus app. 22M NOK/year from other sources

GRID in FINLAND

Grid in Finland

CSC plays a major role in the national Grid activities and participates in building European and national Grid infrastructure. CSC works in close co-operation with supercomputing centres worldwide and successfully applies the Grid technology to a number of national and regional projects.

Current Grid activities at CSC

CSC Scientist's User Interface - CSC's extranet service for researchers

HAKA - Towards cross-organisational user administration in Finnish higher education

ENACTS, DataGrid, EGEE, BIGGER, REALISTE, DEISA

Resources Finland

• Grid computing: app 1M Euro– Only for testing purposes

• Supercomputing: 8 M Euro

NorduGrid Project Overview

• Started in spring of 2001, with the aim of creating a Grid infrastructure in the Nordic countries

• Partners from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland

• Initially meant only to be the Nordic branch of the EU DataGrid (EDG) Testbed

• Currently relies on very limited human resources (5 full-time researchers, few part-time ones)

NorduGrid components

1. Use Globus components to build a working Grid2. Globus RPM distribution based on Globus 2.0 for RedHat

7.2– Has also been verified on Slackware and Mandrake– Can also use existing Globus installation

3. Use existing MDS with improved schema4. Use GridFTP protocol with servers and clients built into

applications5. Use existing Replica Catalog to manage data6. Replace most of Globus Resource management Grid

Manager7. Rewrite User Interface with broker added

NorduGrid job submission

GridManager

GatekeeperGridFTP

RSLRSL

Front-end Cluster

Example

Nordic Data Grid Facility

Stake holders

IT-scientistsParticle PhysicsComputer Centres Service Providers

NEG

BelgiumEGEE

EU-FP6Holland

Denmark

Norway

Finland

Sweden

FP6 and Nordic GRID

Nordic Data Grid Facility

Stake holders

IT-scientistsScientists in GeneralComputer Centres Service Providers

Nordic Data Grid Facility

Stake holders

IT-scientistsScientists in GeneralComputer Centres Service Providers

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