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NCREN North Carolina Research
Education Network
Wolfgang Gentzsch MCNC
Grid Computing Networking Services
The Foundation for a Statewide Grid
Enabling new methods for teaching and learning by
providing access to vastly increased resources
for computing and communication
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Our Topics for Today

• MCNC Grid Computing Network Services
• NCREN, North Carolina Research Edu Network
• Grid examples in research industry
• Why should we care about Grid Computing ?
• Case Study Grid Evolution in North Carolina
• Grids for Teaching and Learning

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About MCNC Private, Nonprofit Organization

• Established in 1980 as Microelectronics Center of
  North Carolina Became MCNC in 1990
• Founded by NC General Assembly
• Expanded in 1985 to include NC Networking, NCREN
• Provide high-speed network linking NC
  universities
• Common platform for academic research
• Operated NC Supercomputing Center 1988 - 2003
• NC Supercomputer Center 1988 2003
• Independent, private, nonprofit organization
• Focus on technology-based economic development

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MCNC Grid Computing Networking Services
Mission Advance education, innovation,
economic development throughout North Carolina by
delivering next-generation IT that enables the
academic, research, government and business
communities to discover, create, share and apply
knowledge.
Services for - All NC Public Universities - Many
NC Private Universities and Colleges - Private
Research Institutions - Community Colleges -
Libraries - Government - Commercial businesses
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Existing Blend of owned and leased fiber and
circuits featuring resilient rings, fiber, and
lambdas powered by Wave Division Multiplexers and
routers.
Internet Internet 2 NLR
Internet
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The Network A Foundation for Grid

• Advanced high-speed statewide network serves all
  16 NC public universities and most private NC
  universities (including Duke Wake Forest)
• Interconnects 180 research, education, govt and
  commercial locations
• In operation for 20 years

• Network and video comm. services
• - Video (scheduled on-demand)
• - Enables intercampus communication
• - Internet gateway access
• - Internet2/Abilene Research Network
• - National Lambda Rail (NLR)
• NLR Experiments Support Services
• - Data Center Services
• - Statewide Grid Services

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In 1988, N.C. universities were among the 1st in
the world with access to Internet capabilities

• Today
• 500,000 users every day
• 2,440X faster than broadband cable modems
• 66,000X faster than dial-up connections

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NCREN Statewide Video Network

• 1985 One of the nations 1st broadcast-quality,
  interactive video networks for distance learning
• 2000 One of the nations 1st Internet-based
  statewide video networks (Video over IP)
• 2004 50,000 users accessed NCRENs video
  network
• Each Week 100 hours of classes, video
  conferences and seminars over video
• Ad hoc video access 24/7
• Enables true virtual classroom
• High-quality audio for continuous presence

Video conference class at Western Carolina
University
Video control room at MCNC in RTP, NC
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• A Simple View of a Grid
• - An IT Utility on a . . .
• Grid Middleware (the glue)
• Managing . . .
• - Networked Distributed
• Resources

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Grids for Research NEES, Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation
NEESgrid links earthquake researchers across the
U.S. with leading-edge computing resources and
research equipment, allowing collaborative teams
to plan, perform, and publish
their experiments.
Through the NEESgrid, researchers will -
perform tele-observation and tele-operation
of experiments - publish to and make use of a
curated data repository using standardized
markup - access computational resources and
open-source analytical tools - access
collaborative tools for experiment planning,
execution, analysis, and publication.
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Grids for our Community South-eastern Coastal
Ocean Observing Program SURA SCOOP
The Challenge - More than half of the nation's
tidal shores, and home to 80 million people -
coastal zone is undergoing environmental and
ecological changes - threaten the
sustainability of the region's economies and
marine resources The Solution - develop a Grid
of sensors and linked computers - fully
integrating several observing systems in the
southern region - provide data, in real-time and
at high speed, for more reliable, accurate and
timely information To help guide
effective coastal stewardship, plan for extreme
events, facilitate safe maritime
operations, and support coastal military
security.
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Grids for the Industry
DAME is an e-Science pilot project, demonstrating
the use of the GRID to implement a distributed
decision support system for deployment in
maintenance applications and
environments
On-line decision support systems - access to
remote resources (experts, computing, knowledge
bases etc), - communications between key
personnel and actors in the system, - control
of information flow and data quality, - and the
integration of data from diverse global sources
within a strategic decision support system.

Partners Universities of York, Leads, Sheffield,
Oxford and Rolls Royce
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The Global GridCommunity
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Grid Business Benefits Department,
Enterprise, Global Grids

• Resource Utilization increase from 20 to 80
• Productivity more work done in shorter time
• Business Agility flexible actions and
  re-actions
• On Demand get resources, when you need them
• Easy Access transparent, remote, secure
• Sharing enable collaboration over the network
• Failover migrate/restart applications
  automatically
• Resource Virtualization access compute services,
  not servers
• Heterogeneity platforms, OSs, devices,
  software
• Virtual Organizations build dismantle on the
  fly

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Why Should We Care about Grids ? Its the
next big thing! Sam Palmisano, IBM
Grid technologies advance Science and Education
in that we can do things which havent been
possible before. Grid infrastructure
attracts and enables new businesses and creates
new jobs, especially in today's rural areas.
Grids make us more competitive by better
utilizing resources.
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MCNC Grid Computing Networking Services
Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina, USA
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MCNC 3-Year GCNS Grid Roadmap
Grid Service Provider
Easy Access
Awareness Creation
CY03
CY04
CY05
CY06
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Our Foundation for Grid NCREN
4-7 MCNC-owned Clusters distributed throughout
the state Locations still under evaluation
Cisco
EPA
Existing Blend of owned and leased fiber and
circuits moving toward resilient rings powered by
Cisco routers Planned Strong focus on owned and
leased fiber, Lambda, and few circuits, in
resilient rings powered by Cisco routers and Wave
Division Multiplexers
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Example Grid Service Provider MCNC The Grid
Infrastructure for North Carolina
NC Statewide Grid Initiative
MCNC Enterprise Grid

• MCNC
• Microelectronics Center of North Carolina
• Founded in 1980
• Independent, private, non-profit organization
• Operates NCREN since 1984
• Past Supercomputer Center for universities
• Now Grid Service Provider, offering Video,
• Network, Grid, and Datacenter Services
• 50 employees

NC BioGrid
NCREN North Carolina Research Education Network
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NC BioGrid Testbed
One of the nations first grid test beds for
computing, data storage and networking resources
for life sciences research
Established to research and implement new grid
computing technologies that will enable
researchers and educators throughout North
Carolina to take full advantage of
the genomic revolution .

• Design in 2001, installed in Summer 2002,
• heterogeneous hardware and OS platforms
• Spans multiple administrative domains
• with systems located at MCNC, NC State,
• UNC-CH Duke
• More than 80 organizations
• Dedicated systems for testing grid
• middleware and developing grid
• applications for bioinformatics
• Established a Certificate Authority

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GCNS Enterprise GridNetwork, Grid and Data
Center Services
GTEC, NLR, ANR and other Innovation Initiatives
DEPLOYMENT
State-wide Grid Services
Enterprise Grid Services
Value-add Information Systems Services
Self-serve Data Center Services
Information Security Services
Data Archival Services
Hosting Infrastructure
Grid Computing
Information Assurance
DATA CENTER
NCREN
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Building a Statewide Grid Community

• 1985 - 2005, from Internet access to NCREN 3
• 2001 - 2003, North Carolina BioGrid
  
• (UNC, NCState, Duke, MCNC)
• 2003, MCNC Enterprise Grid to provide
• Grid and data center Services
• April 2004, NC statewide grid project
• - NC Grid Community and Working Group
• - Member of GGF and EGA
• - Grid email alias and newsletter
• - Grid training classes (grid software stack)
• - Integration of Globus Toolkit 4 and Grid
  Engine
• - Add grid nodes at Duke, NCState, UNC Chapel
  Hill,
• Wilmington, ECU, Wake Forest, etc.

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Higher Education Grid Constituencies

• Chancellors/Presidents University Outreach
• CIOs Providing and running IT infrastructure
• CAOs, Deans, Key faculty Academic Offerings
• CROs Education and Research
• Students New learning experience

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Chancellors/Presidents

• Play key important role in NC further education
  and economic development
• Improve global competitive position of NC
  universities
• Offer the best infrastructure for research and
  education
• Become early part and active participant in the
  next-gen Advanced Internet

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CIOs

• Offer service-oriented IT architecture (hide
  complexity)
• Enable much more efficient resource management
• Balance resource utilization within and across
  Campuses

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CROs, Deans, Key Faculty

• Provide richer, interdisciplinary and
  collaborative academic offerings
• Offer and use larger and richer set of resources
• Develop, provide, and use more powerful tools for
  joint research collaborations
• Enable researchers to concentrate on research
  (and not on the resources)

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Grid Projects for Education

• Develop Grid Course material
• Use Grid to teach Grid
• QuadA Access, Authentication, Authorization,
  Accounting
• Organize Workshops and Conferences
• GCNS Access Grid
• Virtual University invite key scientists to
  Access Grid
• Tech Transfer Grid leads to Start-Up Grid
• Grid Information Grid
• Kids Grid, Gaming Grid, School Grid
• Download-The-Grid
• Do-Grid-Yourself
• Web course Enter-The-Grid
• Statewide Grid Competition
• Joint Graduate/PhD program
• Joint Research Development Deployment

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Grid Projects for Education

• Develop Grid Course material
• Use Grid to teach Grid
• QuadA Access, Authentication, Authorization,
  Accounting
• Organize Workshops and Conferences
• GCNS Access Grid
• Virtual University invite key scientists to
  Access Grid
• Tech Transfer Grid leads to Start-Up Grid
• Grid Information Grid
• Kids Grid, Gaming Grid, School Grid
• Download-The-Grid
• Do-Grid-Yourself
• Web course Enter-The-Grid
• Statewide Grid Competition
• Joint Graduate/PhD program
• Joint Research Development Deployment

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Grid Projects Driving Grid Adoption in NC

MCNC Grid SP

School Grids

Kids Grids

Gaming Grid

School Grids

Grid-Info Grid

Download-The-Grid
AAAA
Project
Grid Training Courses

Startup Grid
Grid Appliance
Grid
Portal
GGF EGA NC
Statewide Grid MCNC
Enterprise Grid NC BioGrid MCNC
Supercomputing
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Thank You!
The Innovation Engine

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