DAS-3 A world-appealing demo for a light path connected grid infrastructure

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DAS-3A 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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NWO/EW DAS-3 NCF

• 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 -gtICT research and
  development topic
• Middleware development -gt Public interest
• Experiments in Computer Science domain
• Added value through Light Path connections
• Demonstrator
• Grids are applicable tools -gtBasis 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
• (DEISADistributed 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

• Dont 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