APAC

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ISGC 2005 26-29 April 2005 Taiwan
Advanced Computing and Grid Infrastructure in
Australia
John OCallaghan Executive Director Australian
Partnership for Advanced Computing www.apac.edu.au

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Australian Partnership forAdvanced Computing
providing advanced computing and grid
infrastructure for e-Research

• Partners
• Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and
  Communications (ac3) in NSW
• CSIRO
• Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation
  (QPSF)
• Interactive Virtual Environments Centre (IVEC) in
  WA
• South Australian Partnership for Advanced
  Computing (SAPAC)
• The Australian National University (ANU)
• The University of Tasmania (TPAC)
• Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
  (VPAC)

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APAC National Facility

• Usage
• mainly biology, chemistry, physics
• currently 247 projects and 722 users (27
  universities)
• Computing Systems
• SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 system (mid-2005)
• 1680 processors
• HP AlphaServer SC ES45
• 508 processors
• Dell Linux cluster
• 150 processors
• Mass Data Storage System (MDSS)
• Hierarchical Storage Management
• SAM-FS
• Storagetek (robotic silo) tape library
• Capable of a petabyte (1015 bytes) of storage
• Visualisation Systems

http//nf.apac.edu.au
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APAC National Grid

• allow easier access to APAC facilities
• one virtual system of computational facilities
• single sign-on to the computing systems
• portals and workflow to access applications
  software and data
• secure infrastructure
• authorisation, authentication, accounting
• support participation in international programs
• compatibility with grids in other countries
• significant human resource investment
• involves about 100 people
• started in 2004.

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APAC Grid Interfaces
Research Teams
Data Centres
QPSF
AC3
IVEC
Sensor Networks
APAC NATIONAL FACILITY
ANU
SAPAC
CSIRO
TPAC
VPAC
Other Grids Institutional National International

Instruments
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Context of APAC Grid
Astronomy Grids
HEP Grids
Bio-Grids
Earth Systems Grids
Geosciences Grids
APAC National Grid Infrastructure
International Infrastructure
Institutional Infrastructure
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Australia is well-connected
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APAC Grid Infrastructure

• Computing Infrastructure
• APAC certificate authority
• VDT middleware (Globus)
• meta-scheduling (PBS-based)
• system monitoring and management
• job distribution for parameter searches
  (NIMROD/G)
• Information Infrastructure
• storage resource broker (SRB)
• metadata management support (XML-based)
• resource discovery
• User Interfaces and Visualisation Infrastructure
• Gridsphere-based portals
• workflow engines
• collaborative visualisation tools (RVS,)

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APAC GridApplication Projects

• High-Energy Physics
• Astronomy
• Earth Systems Science
• Computational Chemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Geosciences

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Experimental High-Energy Physics
APAC Grid

• Belle Experiment
• K.E.K. B-factory
• Australian grid for Belle data
• exploiting Globus 2.x, SRB
• data grid based at APAC National Facility
• move to APAC Grid infrastructure
• Atlas Experiment
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
• Deployed LCG toolkit, will follow EGEE
• Plan for Tier 2 facility in Australia
• more in Glenn Moloneys talk tomorrow..

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Astronomy
APAC Grid

• MACHO Project
• Largest on-line astrophysical data set in
  Australia
• 10TB Data collected over 10 years
• Hosted on APAC MDSS and part of IVO collection
• Currently using Z39.50 metadata standard
• Mapping metadata to VOTable 1.0 standard
• Emerging IVO metadata standard
• wwwmacho.anu.edu.au
• Australian Virtual Observatory
• efficient, uniform access to key astronomical
  data collections
• 2dFGRS, HIPASS, ATCA-OA, SUMSS, MACHO, TNO,
  ROTSE-III, WFI, S4,
• www.aus-vo.org
• International Virtual Observatory
• SIAP service for ATCA Phoenix Deep Field Survey
  (PDFS)
• SIAP is an International Virtual Observatory
  Alliance (IVOA) access protocol

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Earth Systems Science
APAC Grid

• Data Products
• CSIRO Inter-governmental Panel Climate Change
  scenarios (3Tb)
• Ocean Colour Products of Australasian and
  Antarctic region
• MODIS and SeaWIFS (10Tb)
• TPAC 1/8 degree ocean simulations (2-4Tb)
• BMRC research products (1-4Tb)
• ACE CRC Earth Systems Simulations
• Terrestrial Land Surface Data
• Grid Services
• Globus based version of OPeNDAP
• analysis tools for OPeNDAP data sets
• GRADS OPeNDAP server, NOMADS
• Client side visualisation from OPeNDAP servers
• THREDDS (catalogues of OPeNDAP repositories)

http//www.opendap.org/
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Chemistry
APAC Grid

• Portal to chemistry software packages
• Gridsphere-based portal to APAC Grid
• Gaussian, Amber, Gamess-US, Gromacs, Mopac and
  Molpro

Firewall
Web Server
HTTPS
Globus
Gridsphere Portal
Grid Computers
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APAC Grid Architecture
PORTALS
WORKFLOW
APPLICATION GRID MIDDLEWARE
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GENERIC GRID MIDDLEWARE
SECURITY
COMPUTING, STORAGE, VISUALISATION SYSTEMS
NETWORKS