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Outline
The Grid concept
Grid architecture
Middleware – the core
Interact with the Grid : first steps
Virtual Organizations
enmr.eu VO
Site grid administration
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Our world … today!
Network infrastructure ON
Global Sharing resources “OFF”
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One step further … The Grid
Network infrastructure ON
Global Sharing resources ON
“Coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic,
multi-institutional virtual organizations”.*
Foster, I. et al., Int. J. Superc. Appli. (2000)15:3
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Why do scientists need the Grid?
High-energy physics (15 PB/year)
15 PB ~ 20*10^6 CD’s
Complex problems !!
Many iterations !!
Virtual cooperation !!
Genome projects, data mining,
Tackling the protein folding,
Protein structure, …
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Building a Grid - architecture
Network
Resources
Middleware
Application
User-centric
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Building a Grid - Grid Fabric (I)
Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe
State-of-the-art (1985) = 56 Kbps
Network characterization
Size
Throughput
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Building a Grid - Grid fabric (II)
Computer performance
# Syst. Family Rmax.
(GFps)
1 IBM cluster 1105
52 IBM pSeries 48.9
75 IBM BlueGene 35.1
93 IBM BlueGene 27.5
A flop is a basic computational operation
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Building a Grid - middleware
"Middleware" is the software that organizes and
integrates the resources in a grid.
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GenericInstallGuide310
gLite*
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How to interact with the Grid
The UI service
3 ways to access the Grid – UI service, Web portal, or UI PnP
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Enabling Grids for E-science
> 140 institutions
> 300 sites
50 countries
> 10.000 users
> 80.000 CPU cores 24/7
WOULD YOU TRUST YOUR COMPUTER TO A COMPLETE STRANGER?
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)
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Registered EGEE Virtual Organizations
Application domain Active VOs Users
High-energy Physics 36 7994
Life Sciences 8 333
... ... ...
Total 155 16263
Stats : 10 Fev 2009
VO name Scope Registered Users
biomd Gobal 223
bio Regional - Italy 57
enmr.eu Global 54
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Fill the form AND
! Pay attention !
1. Organization
2. Organizational Unit
3. Certificate Level: medium
4. Check & re-check!
RA: A. Bonvin
http://ca.dutchgrid.nl/request/
+ ID card
DN : /O=dutchgrid/O=users/O=universiteit-utrecht/OU=chem/CN=Your Name
Proof of Possession
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Wise sentence …
“If you think this is cumbersome… it is nothing
compared to get the grid running.”
van der Zwan, J. ; 26-01-2009 14:43
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Site Grid Administration
A glimpse
Goal:
keep the grid running 24/7
Facts:
more than 30 middleware updates/year
Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
… nevertheless grid is running
How to deal with:
Test b4 putting a service on production
Any more ideas?
Sandbox:
Pre-production: test, destroy, and re-build
The art of computer virtualization*: takes 2 min.
http://www.xen.org/
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Questões colocadas/ Comentários
Protecção contra vírus. Existem mecanismos?
Sistema de prioridades na utilização dos recursos?
Panos gostou da apresentação, excepto do slide acerca da Grid admin
(diz que estava for a do contexto)
Num sistema heterogéneo, obtém-se resultados diferentes para o
mesmo problema inicial. No entanto, isto tb ocorre na laboratório. È
possível no entanto escolher que máquinas usar na grid e que
máquinas não usar.
Klartje perguntou se é possível colocar outros programas na Grid.
Bonvin respondeu que é possivel enviar o programa junto com o
dados.
Dirk perguntou se as comunicações entre os computadores é
encriptada.
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Moore’s Law
Some STATS :
1. Computer power doubles every … 18 months
2. Network performance doubles every … 9 months
3. Data storage density is doubling every … 12 months
“The number of transistors that could be squeezed on
to a silicon chip was doubling every year.” Moore, G. 1965
Every year that passes, The Grid concept becomes more feasible
Distributed processors can be more tightly integrated
Computer grids are increasingly able to solve increasingly complex problems
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gLite INFNGRID – deployment status
Update Date
40 ? (04 Fev 2009,CERN)
38-39 23 Jan 2009
35-37 05 Dez 2008
32-34 07 Nov 2008
30-31 23 Set 2008
... ...
13 19 Fev 2008
... ...
INFNGRID gLite 3.1 (SL4)
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The GRID is a collection of geographically distributed resources
GRID users:
Organized in Virtual Organizations
Need to run programs without the need to know
Where to run a job
Where to get the input data from
Where to store the output data to
The GRID consists of
An Authorisation and Authentication System
An Information System
A Workload Management System
A Data Management System
An Accounting System
Various monitoring services
Various installation services
The GRID architecture: general view
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The Authentication and Authorization System:
Contains the list of all the people authorized to use the GRID
divided by VO
all machines running Grid services verify the users credentials
map the GRID users to the local users of the machine
The Information System:
provides information about gLite resources and their statuses.
Information published by the individual resources and copied into central databases.
Used by:
WMS: match resources against job requirements and to rank them
DMS: choose storage resources
monitoring systems
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The Workload Management System:
manages jobs submitted by users
matches the job requirements to the available resources
schedules the job for execution on an appropriate computing cluster
tracks the job status
allows the user to retrieve the job output when ready
The Data Management System:
Allows users to
move files in and out of the Grid
replicate files among different locations
locate files.
This is achieved:
transferring data via a number of protocols
GridFTP is the most commonly used
interacting with a central file catalog
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Monitoring Services:
GridICE: monitors the usage of Grid resources
# jobs running, the storage space available …
R-GMA allows users to monitor application
store results in a relational database
Some Monitoring Systems check status of Grid services
more intended for the GRID operations staff
Dedicated Fabric Management Services:
manage installation, upgrade and maintenance local Grid services
LCFGng (dismissed)
Quattor
YAIM (semi automatic tool based on APT/YUM and shell scripts)
The GRID architecture: general view
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Grid analogy
Electrical Power-Grid The Grid
You never worry about where the
electricity you are using comes from.
You would never worry about where the
computer power you are using comes from
The infrastructure that makes this
possible is called "the power grid".
The infrastructure that makes this possible
is called "the Grid".
The power grid is pervasive: electricity
is available essentially everywhere and
you can imply access it through a
standard wall socket
The Grid is be pervasive: remote
computing resources would be accessible
from different platforms, and you will simply
access the Grid through your web browser.
The power grid is a utility: you ask for
electricity, and you get it. You also pay
for what you get.
The Grid is a utility: you ask for computer
power or storage capacity and you get it.
You also pay for what you get.
"The Grid" doesn't yet exist in this form; however, the world already
has hundreds of smaller grids...
