DAS-3 A world-appealing demo for a light path connected grid infrastructure

1. DAS-3A world-appealing demo for a light path connected grid infrastructure Henk van der Vorst -NWO Physical Sciences (EW) Patrick Aerts -NCF National Computing Facilities Foundation NWO/EW+/NCF

2. NWO/EW DAS-3 NCF • The DAS-3 project was co-funded by NWO-EW and NCF • By EW in support of Computer Science instrumentation • By NCF in support of the development of grid-based infrastructures • DAS-3 project management successfully convinced EW and NCF that their project could serve both purposes and add value to both NWO/EW+/NCF

3. Points of view from the Research Organisation • Grids are in their infancy ->ICT research and development topic • Middleware development -> Public interest • Experiments in Computer Science domain • Added value through Light Path connections • Demonstrator • Grids are applicable tools ->Basis for wide area ICT infrastructure • All major wide area ICT infrastructures to be based on grid technology • “Readily” applicable • Higher return in investment for grid resources NWO/EW+/NCF

4. International demonstrator • Significant international interest in switched light path technology • The Netherlands are an excellent experimental garden • Not only for the networking technology • But now also for grid-technology • Task to the DAS-3 project management: consider the potential for valorisation from the very start of the project NWO/EW+/NCF

5. Profiling the Netherlands • DAS-3 fits the goals for profiling the Netherlands as an serious investor in support of facilitating (e-) Science and • As an attractive partner for ICT research. • Examples that support this picture are: • VL-e, Bricks, LOFAR+ Blue Gene, NBIC/Genomics, BIGGRID, TERAS/ASTER and Huygens, Gigaport/SURFnet, … NWO/EW+/NCF

6. DAS-3 and DEISA • Whereas DAS-3 is the distributed supercomputer of ASCI, • DEISA is the distributed supercomputer of Europe • (DEISA=Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputer Applications) • www.deisa.org • How can the DAS-3 project results benefit to the European SC-infrastructure? NWO/EW+/NCF

7. DAS-3 and SIRENE • Whereas DAS-3 is a Dutch project • SIRENE is a cooperation between EST, Let, Lit, F, SE, N, Dk, Ire, NL, B, (L), At and H, focussed on grid cooperation and sharing grid resources sirene.eugrid.eu • How can DAS-3 set an outstanding example to grid-infrastructures (as the goals of SIRENE describe)? NWO/EW+/NCF

8. DAS-3 and BIGGRID • Don’t think BIGGRID is the BIG grid and DAS-3 is the small grid • BIGGRID will be BIG and eventually encompass DAS-3 as one of the resources, but • BIGGRID yet has to determine its technology and middleware basis; • BIGGRID is to learn from the experimental mixture of DAS-3 local and computer science use with general purpose grid usage by “third parties”; • BIGGRID has yet to learn from light path usage experiments in DAS-3; • The DAS-3 project is ahead of BIGGRID in terms of starting date and organisation; • BIGGRID will be successful, but yet has to grow BIG NWO/EW+/NCF

9. DAS-3 and SUCCESS • DAS-3 is born success prone: • It will address lots of ambitious sciences cases; • The applicants have well established track records; • It will be demonstrated that computer science and computational science are adjacent fields indeed and are well able to cross fertilise each other; • The researchers involved are eager as never before to show their funding is well deserved as • Their scope lies beyond “3” NWO/EW+/NCF

10. On behalf of NWO-EW and NCF Congratulations NWO/EW+/NCF