the austrian grid initiative and the central european grid consortium – combining national and...

Austrian Grid Project (BMBWK GZ 4003/2-VI/4c/2004)EU CrossGrid Project (IST-2001-32243)

EU EGEE Project (INFSO 508833)

The Austrian Grid Initiative and the Central

European Grid Consortium –

Combining National and Regional Efforts

Dieter KranzlmüllerGUP, Joh. Kepler University Linz

kranzlmueller@gup.jku.at

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

AcknowledgmentsInput for this presentation from …• Ludek Matyska (Brno)• Peter Kacsuk (Budapest)• Aleksander Kusznir (Cracow)• Michal Turala (Cracow)• Thomas Fahringer (Innsbruck)• Martin Polak (Linz)• Jens Volkert (Linz)• … Thanks and apologies

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

Contents• The Past …• The Future …• The Present …• The ACE Model:

Relations between Local, National, Regional, and International Projects

Summary and Perspectives

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One Year Ago …

October 27-29, 2003

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The Past2004:• January: AcrossGrids Conference (Nikosia)• March: CrossGrid Review (Karlsruhe)• April 1: Austrian Grid Project Start• April 1: EGEE Project Start• April: 1st EGEE Conference (Dublin)• July: CrossGrid Review (Dagstuhl)• November: 2nd EGEE Conference (The Hague)

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Next Year …

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The Future2005:• February: 1st EGEE Review (Geneva)• February: European Grid Conference

+ CrossGrid Final Review (Amsterdam)• April: 3rd EGEE Conference (Athens)• May/September: EU Call/Deadline (IST,Infrastr.)• Autumn: Austrian Grid Symposium (Linz)• November: 4th EGEE Conf. (Edinburgh)

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The Present• CrossGrid is in its final phase …• EGEE is in its hot phase …

• EU Calls on the horizon …– May/Sept. 2005: IST Call 5 (~70 M€)– May/Sept. 2005: Infrastructure Call:

EGEE 2nd Phase– Other Proposals?!?

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The ACE Model

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The ACE ModelAustrian Grid Consortium:• National Initiative• Partners from:

Linz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Graz, Vienna

• 15 Workpackages (Middleware + Applications)

• 2.7 M€ from Austrian Federal Ministry (bm:bwk)

AustrianGrid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

The ACE Model

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

The ACE Model

Central European Grid Consortium

Central European Grid Consortium:

• Partners from:Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland

• Current Chair: Ludek Matyska (Brno)

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The ACE Model

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

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The ACE ModelEGEE Consortium:• 70 Partners from 27 Countries• 12 Federations (e.g. Central Europe)• 32 M€ (April 1, 2004 – March 31, 2006)

“Largest Grid Infrastructure Project on the World”

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

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EGEE Activities• Joint Research:

– Middleware Engineering and Integration, Quality Assurance, Security, Network Services Development

• Services: – Grid Operations, Support and Management, Network

Resource Provision• Networking:

– Management, Dissemination and Outreach, User Training and Education, Application Identification and Support, Policy and International Cooperation

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Grid Infrastructures

EGEE Approach• Production Grid Infrastructure• End-User Support and Services

Networking Infrastructure

Stability/Reliability Border

Applications

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EGEE Grid Infrastructure

Networking Infrastructure

Applications

Grid Infrastructures

EGEE Approach• Production Grid Infrastructure• End-User Support and Services

Networking Infrastructure

Applications

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More about EGEE

• “EGEE, First Result and Future Plans”Fabrizio Gagliardi (EGEE Project Director) CERN

Wednesday, December 15, 200409:05 – 09:50

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How does it all connect together?

NationalRegional

International

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The ACE Model

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

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How can we contribute?

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CE in EGEE• Today’s contribution to EGEE:

– NA2: Dissemination and Outreach– NA3: User Training and Education– NA4: Application Identification and Support– SA1: Grid Operations, Support and

Management Distributed ROC (Lead by CYFRONET)

– JRA1: Middleware Engineering and Integration (CESNET)

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How can we contribute

in the Future?

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CE Federation• Tomorrow’s contribution to EGEE?• EGEE Stabilization:

– Grid Infrastructure Deployment• EGEE Expansion:

– New partners (e.g. Baltic countries)– New applications (e.g. Flooding)– New middleware services (e.g. Interactivity)

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EGEE Future

EGEE Phase 2 +

Associated FP6 Projects

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Central European Future

“Competition is (too) strong”

Answer: “Yes, but …”

• Competition is good for all of us (e.g. for quality …)

• Central Europe has lots of things to offer

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ACE Model Extension

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

CzechRepublic Hungary Slovenia SlovakiaPoland

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The ACEs Model

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

CzechRepublic Hungary Slovenia SlovakiaPoland

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EGEE Federations Facts

Central Europe is

• Largest federation in terms of partners (13 partners)

• Second largest federation (after Northern)

in terms of participating countries

(6 countries)

• Second biggest federation (after Germany)

in terms of population(~78 million)

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ExampleSuccess Story

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EU CrossGrid Project

2002-2005

21 Partners, 11 Countries

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EU CrossGrid Project

• Large, successful FP5 Grid Project

User-Centered Grid Computing

• Costs: 7 M€, EU Funding: 5 M€• Lead by Cyfronet (Poland)• 7 Central European Partners

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How can we contribute

in the Future?

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

Central Europe Offers

• Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure CrossGrid Testbed

• Expertise in Grid Application development Applications: e.g. Flooding,…

• Expertise in Middleware developmentInteractivity Support, …

• …

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Central Europe Offers

• Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure CrossGrid Testbed

• Expertise in Grid Application development Applications: Medical, Flooding,…

• Expertise in Middleware developmentInteractivity Support

• …

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CrossGrid Testbed• 2002-2005

• 11 Countries• 21 Partners

• 184 CPUs, 4 TBytes

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CE Contributions to EGEE Infrastructure

• Merge CrossGrid with EGEE Infrastructure Immediate increase in number of CPUs Impact in terms of operation expertise

• Install Central European EGEE Testbed Focus on development for EGEE Grids Stimulate our own developments

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Central Europe Offers

• Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure CrossGrid Testbed

• Expertise in Grid Application development Applications: e.g. Flooding,…

• Expertise in Middleware developmentInteractivity Support, …

• …

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Flooding Visualizatio

n in the CAVE

Cooperation withSlovak Academy of Sciences(Ladislav Hluchy)

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CE Contributions to Grid Applications

• LandscapeGrid Proposal: Grid-Based System for Landscape Risk Management

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Central Europe Offers

• Expertise in managing and operating large-scale Grid infrastructure CrossGrid Testbed

• Expertise in Grid Application development Applications: e.g. Flooding,…

• Expertise in Middleware developmentInteractivity Support, …

• …

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Cooperation with Univ. Amsterdam

BioMedic

al App.

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Visualization• Interactive Scientific Visualization

on the Grid• Seamless Integration

in existing visualization toolkit (e.g. VTK)• Computational Steering

of Grid Applications

Grid Visualization Kernel (GVK)

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Grid Visualization Kernel

Workernode

Workernode

Workernode

Workernode

Gatekeeper

on the Grid

Client

glogin

Point ofContact

glogin’’

GVK

vis.data

vis.data

vis.data W

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KIN

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inter-action

interaction interaction

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Feature Listgloginglogin enables …• Low-level communication functionality• Grid shell (SSH replacement)

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glogin shell

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glogin shell

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Feature Listgloginglogin enables …• Low-level communication functionality• Grid shell (SSH replacement)• TCP forwarding (multiple local/remote)• X11 and VNC forwarding• PPP protocol tunneling• VPN between nodes on and off the Grid

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glogin• Supports:

Globus GT2/GT3, PBS, ARC*, SUN Grid Engine• Used/Deployed/Requested: EU CrossGrid,

AustrianGrid, DutchGrid, NorduGrid, …• Publication:

– H. Rosmanith, D. Kranzlmüller, "glogin - A Multi-functional, Interactive Tunnel into the Grid", Proc. Grid 2004, 5th IEEE/ACM Intl. Workshop on Grid Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 266-272 (November 2004)

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Middleware Extensions

• Interactivity• Visualization• Collaboration• On-demand• Pervasiveness• Security• …

What else?

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The ACEs Model

EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

Central European Grid Consortium

AustrianGrid

CzechRepublic Hungary Slovenia SlovakiaPoland

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

Summary• Focus on your particular expertise

There is lots of Grid computing expertise in Central Europe

• Don’t fear competition Central Europe is doing really good work (- we’ve proven that)

• Join forces with other members of Central European federation

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Perspectives

Lots of possibilities EU Calls (May/Sept.)

Lots of work and excitementfor 2005

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Events 2005• February 14-16, 2005:

European Grid Conference, Amsterdam, NLhttp://genias.biz/egc2005/

• April 18-22, 2005: 3rd EGEE Conference, Athens, Greece

• November 14-18, 2005:4th EGEE Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland

• ???CGW 2005, Cracow, Poland

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Apologies …

for my enthusiasm and excitement

Dieter Kranzlmüller, GUP CGW 2004, Cracow

Questions?