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Taking Grids out of the Lab and onto the Campus at Georgia State University – Case Study – Art Vandenberg Director, Advanced Campus Services Information Systems & Technology Georgia State University [email protected] October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 1 Getting Grids Going • • • • • • NMI components - test drive Finding a starting point - Physics & Astronomy Building Interest Knowledge Discovery: catalog of people, applications... Working with Intra-testbed sites Iterative deployment October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 2 NMI GRID Components Test Drive • NMI Integration Testbed - (team component) – http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed/ • NMI Components: – – – – Globus Toolkit (& GPT, Grid Packaging Tool) Network Weather Service Condor-G MyProxy • Technical focus – “How does it work?” “What resources required?” October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 3 Finding a starting point • Dr. Xiaochun He, Physics & Astronomy http://petitt.phy-astr.gsu.edu/welcome.html • Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven – Phenix: remote access to large datasets (terabytes) of high-energy nuclear physics • (By the way: – “If I’m at an Internet2 school, why’s my connection just 10mbps?” Related discussions as to network connectivity, security... Lead to improvement options for Physics Lab.) • Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN • Muon Detector project with Georgia High Schools October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 4 Muon Detector Grid? • “Large Area Cosmic Muon Flux Measurement” – – – – – “Rain” of cosmic particles Detection is a challenge Measurement, correlation to weather, electronics Pilot outreach for high school, middle school in Georgia 200 detectors with cpu/gps • Well, why not a Grid? – Management, security – Testing and learning • http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/GRID_Group/Index.htm October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 5 Building Interest… • Tiau tiau da lu tung Roma • Dr. Vijay Vaishnavi, CIS – Collaboration on metadata & organizational knowledge – Clustering techniques & tools – genetic algorithm across Grid nodes • • • • • • Victor Bolet, Joseph Liang (undergrad, Masters CIS) David McBride, University Educational Tech. Svcs Dr. Rob Harrison, CS Dr. Irene Weber, Biology Dr. Yi Pan, CS Dr. Sham Navathe, Dr.Chris Shaw – Georgia Tech October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 6 GRID Group @ GSU • Purpose is to: – – – – – – Build effective GRID infrastructure Identify applications that benefit from GRIDs Attract & retain faculty & students Foster research activities and opportunities Encourage funding http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/GRID_Group/Index.htm • Linked purposes – NMI Integration Testbed – Georgia State VP Research – interest in faculty research support – Georgia State Provost – State fund allocations limited, and will remain so. Do more with less. [Grids as growth sector] October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 7 Catalog as Catalyst • Why a catalog? – Data: a shared KNOWLEDGE base for our virtual organization – What’s Georgia State already doing / not doing? ROADMAP • “No one’s doing any grid stuff…” Ok, that’s a red flag! • “Grids require major hardware investment.” Fact? – Establish a REFERENCE set for intra-testbed sites – ENGAGE discussion, comment • Grids are really just for parallel processing, intensive computation • “I just set up our own, too complicated to build shared grids.” • Grids are for distributed resources? – Identify OPTIONS – Find FOCUS areas October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 8 Catalog Draft… • Begin: Georgia State University researcher interest • NMI NSF/REU – Nicole Gieger (Physics) Anish Shindore (CIS) • • Physics, then CS, BIO, CIS, Chem • Key words: “grid” to “parallel processing” to “computational…” Expand: to NMI Testbed sites (GSU, UFL, FSU, UAB, UAH, UVa, UMich, TACC, USC) • (DRAFT) Results – http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/GRID_Group/Index.htm – ~ 1% of all faculty (177 persons at 9 sites) 99% opportunity! – Next level: • catalog Testbed hw resources • Links to national Grid projects? • Potential clustering of interests: researchers, resources, projects October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 9 Intra-Testbed Grid • NMI Integration Testbed Intra-Testbed GRID – Revised SOW work, some re-directed funds – Funding for Masters Students (through August 2004) • Value of peer collaboration – (Extending beyond NMI sites?) • Taking Grid “out of the lab” – Real world environment – Heterogeneous grid resources – Certificate issues & interoperation • Leveraging starting points: – Muon Grid (with GPS, weather, geomagnetic components...) – …and other October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 10 Iterative Deployment • • • • NMI Component trial & test drive Application identification Building researcher interest Peer collaboration – – – – To solve a technical issues To share best practices To discover potential research/application opportunities To work together on funding • (repeat as needed) October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 11 Contact • Art Vandenberg, [email protected] • http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/GRID_Group/Index.htm October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 12