Download Taking Grids out of the Lab and onto the Campus at Georgia State

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]
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Getting Grids Going
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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
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NMI GRID Components
Test Drive
• NMI Integration Testbed - (team component)
– http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed/
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Globus Toolkit (& GPT, Grid Packaging Tool)
Network Weather Service
Condor-G
MyProxy
• Technical focus
– “How does it work?” “What resources required?”
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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
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– “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
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Muon Detector Grid?
• “Large Area Cosmic Muon Flux Measurement”
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“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
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Building Interest…
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• Dr. Vijay Vaishnavi, CIS
– Collaboration on metadata & organizational knowledge
– Clustering techniques & tools
– genetic algorithm across Grid nodes
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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
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GRID Group @ GSU
• Purpose is to:
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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]
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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
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Catalog Draft…
• Begin: Georgia State University researcher interest
• NMI NSF/REU – Nicole Gieger (Physics) Anish Shindore (CIS)
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• 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
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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
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Iterative Deployment
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NMI Component trial & test drive
Application identification
Building researcher interest
Peer collaboration
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To solve a technical issues
To share best practices
To discover potential research/application opportunities
To work together on funding
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Contact
• Art Vandenberg, [email protected]
• http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/GRID_Group/Index.htm
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