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Grids in CYFRONET
CYFRONET Academic Computer Centre of the AGH
University of Science and Technology
Marian Bubak Zofia Mosurska Michal Turala
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Very Short History

• Established in 1973 as an independent, non-profit
  organization.
• In 1999 it became a separate unit of the
  University of Science and Technology in Krakow.
• Main goal is to provide the universities and
  research institutions with
• computing power combined with a wide range of
  scientific software
• communication infrastructure and network services
• CYFRONET is also engaged in numerous important
  projects, both domestic and international.
• Strong collaboration with
• Institute of Computer Science AGH
• Institute of Nuclear Physics

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Computer Resources
MAN
10 Gb/s GEANT
10 Gb/s PIONIER
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WORLD
EUROPE
ACC CYFRONET
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Metropolitan Area Network of the City of Krakow
CYFRONET serves as the operator of the Cracow
academic MAN, providing connectivity and services
to academic institutions dispersed throughout the
city via a fiber-optic network several dozen
kilometers in length. The Centre functions as
the main network node in southern Poland.

• 70 km of fiber-optic links
• Spans the entire metropolitan area of Cracow
• Links universities, research centers, government
  institutions,
• 155Mbps ATM backbone (expandable to 622Mbps)
• Linked to POL-34 (622 Mbps)

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Conferences organized by Cyfronet
The 8th Joint EPS-APS International Conference on
Physics Computing (17-21 IX 1996)
The 6th Annual European Convex Users Conference
(18-21 X 1994)
Infofestival 96 Informatyka dla Nauki (12-15
XI 1996)
High Performace Computing on Hewlett-Packard
Systems (5-8 XI 1997)
High Performance Computing in Europe on IBM
Platforms (8-11 IX 1996)
SGI Users Conference (11-14 X 2000)
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Conferences organized by Cyfronet (contd.)
3rd IFIP Conference on Distributed Applicatios
and Interoperable Systems (17-19 X 2001)
The 2nd Cracow Grid Workshop 11-14 XII 2002
The 1st Cracow Grid Workshop 5-6 XI 2001
Seminar Sun Application Tuning 18-20 II 2003
The 1st EU CrossGrid Conference (18-20 III 2002)
Perimeter, Server and Desktop Security Solutions
of WatchGuard Technologies(2 IV 2003)
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Conferences organized by Cyfronet (contd.)
The 4th Cracow Grid Workshp 13-15 XII 2004
E-health in Common Europe 5-6 VI 2003
E-health in Common Europe 17-18 XII 2004
The 3nd Cracow Grid Workshop 27 29 XI 2003
The 7th Conference on Software Engineering
(KKIO)18-21 X 2005
International Conferenceon Computational
Science7 9 VI 2004
The 5th Cracow Grid Workshp 20-23 XI 2005
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SEMINARS

• They are held weekly or bi-weekly,
• mainly for CYFRONETs Users
• Supercomputing and Networking (for many years)
• Cracow Grid Seminar (since 2002)

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National Projects
The Cracow Telemedicine Centre (where CYFRONET is
one of the principal partners) has performed
research in different telemedicine fields for
years, helping many hospitals and health centres
secure better medical services. The Centre has
had many achievements in the development and
implementation of IT solutions for different
projects sponsored by the Polish Ministry of
Science, as well as by EU 5FP.
MAN
PIONIER Polish Optical Internet - Advanced
Applications, Services and Technologies for
Information Society. PIONIER program has
triggered many supporting activities, (such as
e-Polska, Wrota Polski, etc.) aiming at building
the base mechanisms of information society and
providing Poland for equal partnership
opportunities with other countries.
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National Projects (contd.)
High Performance Computing and Visualization with
the SGI Grid for Virtual Laboratory Applications
- the SGI Grid project aims to design and
implement
MAN

• state-of-the-art, broadband services for remote
  access to expensive laboratory equipment
• backup computational center
• remote data-visualization serviceThese services
  will be based on the national HPC infrastructure
  and advanced visualization.

PROGRESS stands for Polish Research On GRid
Environment for Sun Servers. It started as a
grant co-financed by the Polish State Committee
for Scientifc Research and Sun Microsystems
Poland. The grant involved three research
institutions Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Center, Academic Computer Centre
Cyfronet AGH and Technical University of Lodz,
and lasted since December 2001 until December
2003.
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National Projects (contd.)
MAN
CLUSTERIX - this project contains the
concept of building the National Cluster of Linux
Systems, a distributed PC-cluster (or
metacluster) of a new generation. Its
implementation makes it possible to deploy a
production-class Grid environment, which consists
of local PC-clusters with 64- and 32-bit
architectures, located in geographically distant
independent centers. The management software
(middleware) being developed will allow dynamic
changes in the hardware configuration. This
project is being implemented by 12 Polish
supercomputing centers and metropolitan area
networks (MANs), with the Technical University of
Czestochowa as the project coordinator.
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International Projects

• with the financial support
• of the European Commission
• 5th Framework Program
• CYFRONET involved into various 5 projects
• Already finished
• 6th Framework Program
• Cyfronet participates in 3 Grid projects
• About 10 new proposals have been submitted in
  September 2005 to the EC

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Research Projects in the 5th Framework Program
Successful CrossGrid Final Review. The EU IST
CrossGrid Project IST-2001-3224 had its Final
Review on February 16-17, 2005 in Amsterdam. The
results of the Project were demonstrated at the
European Grid Conference in a series of technical
talks and live demonstrations of applications,
software services and tools, deployed on the
CrossGrid testbeds. More the results were
appreciated by the audience, by the EU Project
Officer and by the Reviewers all internal
deliverables and presentations concerning
technical, managerial and exploitation issues
were approved. The Final CrossGrid Review
concluded successfuly. About 200 persons from 21
institutions, representing 11 countries,
contributed to the Project. CYFRONET was a
Coordinator of the project.
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Research Projects
CrossGrid Architecture

• 17 sites
• 9 countries

• over 200 CPUs
• 4 TB of storage

• T e s t b e d

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CrossGrid
www.eu-crossgrid.org

• 21 partners
• 2002-2005
• Research areas
• CrossGrid Applications
• Grid Tool Environment
• New Grid Services
• International Testbed
• Architecture

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5th Framework Program (cont.)
6-WINIT - an IPv6 wireless Internet initiative.
The project will validate the introduction of
the new Mobile Wireless Internet in Europe.
GRIDSTART - this project clusters all of the 5FP
IST-funded Grid research projects with the
intention to stimulate wide deployment of
appropriate technologies and to support early
adoption of best practices.
PELLUCID - A Platform for Organizationally Mobile
Public Employees. The project is coordinated by
the Council for the Central Laboratory of the
Research Councils, RAL, UK, with two academic
partners CYFRONET and the Institute of Computer
Science AGH.
PRO_ACCESS - The ImPROving ACCESS of Associated
States To Advanced Concepts In Medical
Informatics (PRO-ACCESS) project focuses on
creating a platform for promotion, dissemination
and transfer of advanced health telematics
concepts and experiences from development and
deployment of telemedicine solutions to NAS.
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Research projects in the 6th Framework Program
CoreGRID - the CoreGRID Network of Excellence
(NoE) aims at strengthening and advancing
scientific and technological excellence in the
area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies.
K-Wf Grid - Knowledge-based Workflow System for
Grid Applications - addresses the need for a
better infrastructure for the future Grid
environment. The Grid as a vast space of
partially-cooperating, partially-competing Grid
services will be a very dynamic and complex
environment. In order to address the complexity
in using and controlling the next generation
Grid, the consortium will adopt the approaches
envisioned by semantic Web and Grid communities
in a novel, generic infrastructure. The K-Wf Grid
system will assist its users in composing
powerful Grid workflows by means of a rule-based
expert system.
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K-WfGridWorkflow Applications and Knowledge

• Integrating services into coherent application
  scenarios
• Enabling automatic construction and reuse of
  workflows with knowledge gathered during
  operation
• Involving monitoring and knowledge acquisition
  services in order to provide added value for end
  users

Technologies service-oriented Grid architecture,
software agents, ontologies, dynamic
instrumentation.
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K-WfGrid - Architecture and Flow of Actions
User
User interaction through the Portal
Guidances for the user
Knowledge
Web Portal
User Assistant Agent
Grid Workflow User Interface
Grid Organizational Memory
Information on available resources and their
description
Workflow composition and execution
visualization Users decisions in crucial points
of execution
Ontological store of knowledge
Workflow Orchestration and Execution
Automatic Application Builder
Workflow Composition Tool
Analysed and extracted knowledge
Information about workflow execution
Scheduler
PerformanceAnalysis
KnowledgeAssimilation Agent
Grid Workflow Execution Service
Information about resources and environment
Information about performance of particular
resources
Execution of chosen Grid services
Low Level Grid Middleware (WS-RF)
Grid Performance Monitoringand Instrumentation
Service
Grid Resources
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K-WfGrid - Partners www.kwfgrid.net

• Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany
• Institute of Computer Science, University of
  Innsbruck,
• Innsbruck, Austria
• Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of
  Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
• ACC CYFRONET AGH, Kraków, Poland
• LogicDIS S.A., Athens, Greece
• Softeco Sismat SpA, Genova, Italy

Berlin
Kraków
Innsbruck
Bratislava
Genova
Athens
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6th Framework Program (contd.)
EGEE - Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe -
the most prestigious of all 6FP Projects, aims to
integrate current national, regional and thematic
Grid efforts in order to create a seamless
European Grid infrastructure for the support of
the European Research Area (ERA). The EGEE
project is coordinated by CERN. CYFRONET,
together with ICM (Warsaw) and PSNC (Poznan),
form a Regional Operations Centre for the Central
European Grid Consortium, comprising Austria, the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and
Slovenia.
EGEE Regional Operations Center (ROC) for Central
European (CE) Federation is one of the several
centers which comprise the European Grid Support,
Operation and Management activity of EGEE. This
activity's role is to create, operate, support
and manage a production quality European grid
infrastructure which will provide computing,
storage, instrumentation and informational
resources at many resource centres (RCs) across
Europe.
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ViroLab - Project Objectives

• The long term mission of ViroLab is to provide
  researchers and medical doctors in Europe with a
  virtual laboratory for infectious diseases.
• To develop a VO that provides the glue for
  binding the various components of our virtual
  laboratory
• To develop a virtual laboratory infrastructure
  for transparent workflow, data access,
  experimental execution and collaboration
• To virtualize and enhance state-of-the-art in
  genotypic resistance interpretation tools and
  integrate them into the virtual laboratory
• To establish epidemiological validation to
  correctly and quantitatively predict virological
  and immunological outcomes and disseminate the
  results to European stakeholders

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ViroLab - Consortium

• Universiteit van Amsterdam
• University Medical Centre Utrecht
• High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
• CYFRONET AGH
• Gridwise Technologies
• Institute de Recerca de la SIDA
• Catholic University Leuven
• University College London
• Catholic University Rome
• Eötvös Loránd University
• Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,
  University of Brescia
• Virology Education B.V.

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ViroLab - Component Perspective
presentation
Web Browser
PDA Client
Clinical Portal Driver
PDA Driver
application
Rule-based System
Scientific Tools
Session Manager
Stochastic Modeling Apps
VO management, AAA, Data Access Logging for
Provenance
Rule Engines
Rule Derivers
Rule Elucidators
Biostat Apps
grid middleware
GLOBUS, EDG, CrossGrid, other
grid resources
Patient Cohort DB
virtual organization
Medical Knowledge Data
Stanford Virology Lab DB
Derived Rules DB
Intermediate Experimental Data
Measured Data
Medical Apparatus
Immunology DB
Scientific Literature
Pharmacology DB
Exp. Apparatus
data resources
computational resources
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