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Title: The GRIDS Center: Defining and Deploying Grid Middleware


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The GRIDS Center Defining and Deploying Grid
Middleware
  • presented byTom GarritanoUniversity of Chicago
    and Argonne National Laboratory

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NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
  • GRIDS is one of two original teams,the other
    being EDIT
  • New NMI teams just announced (Grid portals and
    instrumentation)
  • GRIDS releases well-tested, deployed and
    supported middleware based on common
    architectures that can be extended to Internet
    users around the world
  • NSF support of GRIDS leverages investment by DOE,
    NASA, DARPA, UK e-Science Program, and private
    industry

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GRIDS Center
  • GRIDS Grid Research Integration Development
    Support
  • Partnership of leading teams in Grid computing
  • University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab
  • Information Sciences Institute at USC
  • NCSA at the University of Illinois at
    Urbana-Champaign
  • SDSC at the University of California at San Diego
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Plus other software contributors (to date UC
    Santa Barbara, U. of Michigan)
  • GRIDS develops, tests, deploys and supports
    standard tools for
  • Authentication, authorization, policy
  • Resource discovery and directory services
  • Remote access to computers, data, instruments

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The Grid What is it?
  • Resource-sharing technology with software and
    services that let people access computing power,
    databases, and other tools securely online across
    corporate, institutional, and geographic
    boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
  • Three key Grid criteria
  • coordinates distributed resources
  • using standard, open, general-purpose protocols
    and interfaces
  • to deliver qualities of service not possible with
    pre-Grid technologies

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Virtual Organizations
  • Distributed resources and people

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Virtual Organizations
  • Distributed resources and people
  • Linked by networks, crossing administrative
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  • Distributed resources and people
  • Linked by networks, crossing administrative
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  • Sharing resources, common goals

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Virtual Organizations
  • Distributed resources and people
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  • Sharing resources, common goals
  • Dynamic

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Virtual Organizations
  • Distributed resources and people
  • Linked by networks, crossing administrative
    domains
  • Sharing resources, common goals
  • Dynamic
  • Fault tolerant

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GRIDS CenterSoftware Suite
  • Globus Toolkit. The de facto standard for Grid
    computing, an open-source "bag of technologies"
    to simplify collaboration across organizations.
    Includes tools for authentication, scheduling,
    file transfer and resource description.
  • Condor-G. Enhanced version of the core Condor
    software optimized to work with GT for managing
    Grid jobs.
  • Network Weather Service (NWS). Periodically
    monitors and dynamically forecasts performance of
    network and computational resources.
  • Grid Packaging Tools (GPT).  XML-based packaging
    data format defines complex dependencies between
    components.

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GRIDS CenterSoftware Suite (cont.)
  • GSI-OpenSSH. Modified version adds support for
    Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) authentication
    and single sign-on capability.
  • MyProxy.  Repository lets users retrieve a proxy
    credential on demand, without managing private
    key and certificate files across sites and
    applications.
  • MPICH-G2.  Grid-enabled implementation of the
    Message Passing Index (MPI) standard, based on
    the popular MPICH library. 
  • GridConfig.  Manages the configuration of GRIDS
    components, letting users regenerate
    configuration files in native formats and ensure
    consistency.
  • KX.509 and KCA. A tool from EDIT that bridges
    Kerberos and PKI infrastructure.

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E-Science Benefits Substantially from GRIDS
Components
  • Large-scale IT deployment projects rely on GRIDS
    components and architecture for core services
  • BIRN, the Bioinformatics Research Network
  • GEON, the Geoscience Network
  • GriPhyN, Particle Physics Data Grid,
    International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
  • NEESgrid, part of the Network for Earthquake
    Engineering Simulation
  • International projects such as the UK e-Science
    Program and EU DataGrid
  • GRIDS standard tools let projects avoid building
    their own infrastructure
  • Increases interoperability, efficiency
  • Prevents balkanization of applications

BIRN MRI Data for Brain Imaging
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Industrial and International Leaders Move to Grid
Services
  • GRIDS leaders engage a worldwide community in
    defining specifications for Grid services
  • Very active working through Global Grid Forum
  • Over a dozen leading companies (IBM, HP,
    Platform) have committed to Globus-based Grid
    services for their products
  • NMI-R4 in December will include Globus Toolkit
    3.0
  • GT3 is the first full-scale deployment of new
    Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) spec
  • Significant contributions from new international
    partners (University of Edinburgh and Swedish
    Royal Institute of Technology) for database
    access and security
  • UK Council for the Central Laboratory of the
    Research Councils (CCLRC) users rank deployment
    of GT3 as their 1 priority

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Acclaim for GRIDS Components
  • On July 15, the New York Times noted the
    far-sighted simplicity of the Grid services
    architecture
  • The Globus Toolkit has earned
  • RD 100 Award
  • Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for
    Excellence in Technology Transfer
  • MIT Technology Review named Grid one of Ten
    Technologies That Will Change the World
  • InfoWorld list of 2003s top 10 innovators
    includes two GRIDS PIs
  • GRIDS co-PI Ian Foster named Innovator of the
    Year for 2003 by RD Magazine

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Future GRIDS Plans
  • GRIDS is completing its second year in October
  • Original three-year award, through Fall 2004
  • Very successful in establishing processes,
    meeting twice/year release schedule, defining
    broadly accepted Grid middleware standards, and
    increasing public awareness of Grid computing
  • GRIDS Center 2 plans
  • Further develop and refine core NMI releases and
    processes
  • Deploy tools based on Open Grid Services
    Architecture
  • Expand testing capability
  • Create a federated bug-tracking facility
  • Public databases Grid Projects and Deployments
    System and Grid Technology Repository
  • Increase outreach to communities at all levels
  • Existing major Grid projects (e.g., TeraGrid,
    NEESgrid)
  • Major projects that should use Grid more (e.g.,
    SEEK, NEON)
  • New communities not yet using Grid (e.g.,
    Computer-Aided Diagnosis)

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Upcoming Tutorials
  • GRIDS is extremely well-represented at SC03, the
    supercomputing conference
  • Tutorials, technical papers, BoFs, demonstrations
  • Phoenix, AZ, November 15-21
  • http//www.sc-conference.org/sc2003
  • GlobusWORLD 2004 conference
  • Co-sponsored by GRIDS
  • San Francisco, CA, January 20-23
  • Academia and Industry both well-represented
  • http//www.globusworld.org

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For more information
  • The GRIDS Centerhttp//www.grids-center.org/
  • NSF Middleware Initiativehttp//www.nsf-middlewar
    e.org/
  • The Globus Alliance http//www.globus.org/
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