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DAS-3

A world-appealing demo for a light path connected grid infrastructure

Henk van der Vorst -NWO Physical Sciences (EW)

Patrick Aerts -NCF National Computing Facilities Foundation

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– The DAS-3 project was co-funded by NWO-EW and NCF– By EW in support of Computer Science instrumentation– By NCF in support of the development of grid-based

infrastructures

– DAS-3 project management successfully convinced EW and NCF that their project could serve both purposes and add value to both

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Points of view from the Research Organisation

– Grids are in their infancy ->ICT research and development topic– Middleware development -> Public interest– Experiments in Computer Science domain– Added value through Light Path connections– Demonstrator

– Grids are applicable tools ->Basis for wide area ICT infrastructure – All major wide area ICT infrastructures to be based on grid

technology– “Readily” applicable– Higher return in investment for grid resources

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International demonstrator

– Significant international interest in switched light path technology– The Netherlands are an excellent experimental garden

– Not only for the networking technology– But now also for grid-technology– Task to the DAS-3 project management: consider the potential

for valorisation from the very start of the project

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Profiling the Netherlands

– DAS-3 fits the goals for profiling the Netherlands as an serious investor in support of facilitating (e-) Science and

– As an attractive partner for ICT research.

– Examples that support this picture are:– VL-e, Bricks, LOFAR+ Blue Gene, NBIC/Genomics, BIGGRID,

TERAS/ASTER and Huygens, Gigaport/SURFnet, …

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DAS-3 and DEISA

– Whereas DAS-3 is the distributed supercomputer of ASCI,– DEISA is the distributed supercomputer of Europe

– (DEISA=Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputer Applications)

– www.deisa.org

– How can the DAS-3 project results benefit to the European SC-infrastructure?

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DAS-3 and SIRENE

– Whereas DAS-3 is a Dutch project– SIRENE is a cooperation between EST, Let, Lit, F, SE, N, Dk, Ire,

NL, B, (L), At and H, focussed on grid cooperation and sharing grid resources sirene.eugrid.eu

– How can DAS-3 set an outstanding example to grid-infrastructures (as the goals of SIRENE describe)?

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DAS-3 and BIGGRID

– Don’t think BIGGRID is the BIG grid and DAS-3 is the small grid– BIGGRID will be BIG and eventually encompass DAS-3 as one of

the resources, but– BIGGRID yet has to determine its technology and middleware

basis;– BIGGRID is to learn from the experimental mixture of DAS-3 local

and computer science use with general purpose grid usage by “third parties”;

– BIGGRID has yet to learn from light path usage experiments in DAS-3;

- The DAS-3 project is ahead of BIGGRID in terms of starting date and organisation;

- BIGGRID will be successful, but yet has to grow BIG

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DAS-3 and SUCCESS

– DAS-3 is born success prone:– It will address lots of ambitious sciences cases;– The applicants have well established track records;– It will be demonstrated that computer science and

computational science are adjacent fields indeed and are well able to cross fertilise each other;

– The researchers involved are eager as never before to show their funding is well deserved as

– Their scope lies beyond “3”

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On behalf of NWO-EW and NCF

Congratulations