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Title: DutchGrid today and tomorrow


1
DutchGrid today and tomorrow
The DutchGrid Platform Large-scale Distributed
Computing in the Netherlands
  • David Groep, NIKHEF
  • 2003-07-03

2
DutchGrid
  • Open platform of interested parties
  • Goals
  • Expertise coordination
  • Provide core national services
  • Developer and end-user support
  • Test bed
  • Dissemination
  • Currently 12 organisations and growing

3
Participants
  • From related projects interested organisations
  • Resource and service providers

Natl. Computing Facilities Foundation
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer-2
own test beds, EDG services
WTCW Virtual Lab / VL E-Science
4
Participants contd
  • Many more on application side

bio informatics
medical imaging
meteo climate
e-business
(radio) astronomyVLBI
materials science
5
Some Applications
  • Virtual Laboratorycomprehensive analysis
    environments for experimentation
  • Chemo-physical surface analysis (PIXE,FT-IR,SIMS)
  • correlating omics databases
  • Virtual Surgery (planning by-passes, artery
    repairs)
  • Particle Physics DØ, Atlas, LHCb, AliceCommon
    Application Layer Monte-Carlo and Analysis
  • OPERA KNMI ozone monitoring and mapping
    space data integration and validation
  • (radio) AstronomyLOFAR, AVO, VLBI semi-online
    and offline processing

6
Services
  • Authentication Service (CA)
  • Serves entire NL scientific communityDataGrid,
    CrossGrid, VL-E, DAS-2,
  • Member of EDG CACG PMA
  • Support Desk
  • Installation support
  • End-user help desk
  • gives insight in requirements and real needs
  • Tutorials
  • Test bed coordination

7
Test Bed Resources
  • ASCI DAS-2 systems (university CS)
  • 400 CPUs, homogeneous clusters at 5 sites
  • NIKHEF and LCG test bed
  • 150 CPUs
  • 3 TByte disk cache
  • NCF Grid Initiative
  • Fabric Research 66 systems
  • Production setup 64 CPUs
  • Network research ? 10 Gb/s
  • Storage access

8
Resources cntd
  • SARA the national HPC centre
  • Tape-based mass store 500 TByte
  • 30 GByte disk cache
  • 1024 CPU SGI Origin 3800 MPP
  • Summary
  • 8 people in deployment and operations
  • Match infrastructures to real application usage

9
Dutch Grid Sites
ASTRON, JIVE
NIKHEF SARA UvA AMOLF
Telin
ULeiden
KNMI
UUtrecht
TUDelft
KUNijmegen
VU
Philips NatLab
DutchGrid site map 20030702David Groep, NIKHEF
Amsterdam
10
Interconnect
  • All Dutch Grid sites linked to SURFnet5
  • 10 Gb/s backbone
  • National DWDM
  • Links to Géant, US, CZ, CERN
  • Customer links
  • 1-2 Gb/s
  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • JIVE on 5 Gb/s!

11
Developments
  • DutchGrid role in future deployment in NL
  • Test bed activities
  • Creating comprehensive environments
  • Support for application scientists
  • Integration and validation
  • Service hosting for ad-hoc collaborations
  • Close integration with DSCs
  • Dissemination
  • expanding into NEG context

12
Summary
  • Research, applications and deployment
  • Strong coordination
  • Diverse applications
  • Diverse resources
  • Expanding rapidly!

www.dutchgrid.nl
www.cs.vu.nl/das2 grid.sara.nl www.surfnet.nl w
ww.nikhef.nl/grid www.nwo.nl/ncf
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