DutchGrid today and tomorrow

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DutchGrid today and tomorrow
The DutchGrid Platform Large-scale Distributed
Computing in the Netherlands

• David Groep, NIKHEF
• 2003-07-03

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DutchGrid

• Open platform of interested parties
• Goals
• Expertise coordination
• Provide core national services
• Developer and end-user support
• Test bed
• Dissemination
• Currently 12 organisations and growing

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Participants

• From related projects interested organisations
• Resource and service providers

Natl. Computing Facilities Foundation
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer-2
own test beds, EDG services
WTCW Virtual Lab / VL E-Science
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Participants contd

• Many more on application side

bio informatics
medical imaging
meteo climate
e-business
(radio) astronomyVLBI
materials science
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Some Applications

• Virtual Laboratorycomprehensive analysis
  environments for experimentation
• Chemo-physical surface analysis (PIXE,FT-IR,SIMS)
• correlating omics databases
• Virtual Surgery (planning by-passes, artery
  repairs)
• Particle Physics DØ, Atlas, LHCb, AliceCommon
  Application Layer Monte-Carlo and Analysis
• OPERA KNMI ozone monitoring and mapping
  space data integration and validation
• (radio) AstronomyLOFAR, AVO, VLBI semi-online
  and offline processing

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Services

• Authentication Service (CA)
• Serves entire NL scientific communityDataGrid,
  CrossGrid, VL-E, DAS-2,
• Member of EDG CACG PMA
• Support Desk
• Installation support
• End-user help desk
• gives insight in requirements and real needs
• Tutorials
• Test bed coordination

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Test Bed Resources

• ASCI DAS-2 systems (university CS)
• 400 CPUs, homogeneous clusters at 5 sites
• NIKHEF and LCG test bed
• 150 CPUs
• 3 TByte disk cache
• NCF Grid Initiative
• Fabric Research 66 systems
• Production setup 64 CPUs
• Network research ? 10 Gb/s
• Storage access

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Resources cntd

• SARA the national HPC centre
• Tape-based mass store 500 TByte
• 30 GByte disk cache
• 1024 CPU SGI Origin 3800 MPP
• Summary
• 8 people in deployment and operations
• Match infrastructures to real application usage

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Dutch Grid Sites
ASTRON, JIVE
NIKHEF SARA UvA AMOLF
Telin
ULeiden
KNMI
UUtrecht
TUDelft
KUNijmegen
VU
Philips NatLab
DutchGrid site map 20030702David Groep, NIKHEF
Amsterdam
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Interconnect

• All Dutch Grid sites linked to SURFnet5
• 10 Gb/s backbone
• National DWDM
• Links to Géant, US, CZ, CERN
• Customer links
• 1-2 Gb/s
• IPv4 and IPv6
• JIVE on 5 Gb/s!

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Developments

• DutchGrid role in future deployment in NL
• Test bed activities
• Creating comprehensive environments
• Support for application scientists
• Integration and validation
• Service hosting for ad-hoc collaborations
• Close integration with DSCs
• Dissemination
• expanding into NEG context

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Summary

• Research, applications and deployment
• Strong coordination
• Diverse applications
• Diverse resources
• Expanding rapidly!

www.dutchgrid.nl
www.cs.vu.nl/das2 grid.sara.nl www.surfnet.nl w
ww.nikhef.nl/grid www.nwo.nl/ncf