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PittGrid: Campus-Wide Computing Environment. Hassan Karimi School of Information Sciences Ralph Roskies Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Present. Disconnected resources (e.g., CPUs, storage, and databases) across the campus
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PittGrid: Campus-Wide Computing Environment Hassan Karimi School of Information Sciences Ralph Roskies Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PittGrid
Present • Disconnected resources (e.g., CPUs, storage, and databases) across the campus • Underutilized CPU and storage resources (e.g., at campus computer labs in off hours) • Lack of an infrastructure and a set of tools allowing researchers across the campus to collaborate on research activities and departments to share computing resources PittGrid
PittGrid: Motivation • An attractive environment to create a more unified computational space for all academic personnel to share in pursuit of research and teaching • An economically efficient, user centered (users will decide on how they prefer to participate in the environment and will have the authority to add and remove their own resources) computing environment • As users interact with the grid and learn how to use it they will inevitably develop their own services and tools to meet their wants and needs PittGrid
PittGrid: Features • Resource Location/Allocation Service • Find suitable computing resources (CPU, storage, etc.) for their tasks • Computational Service • Provide access to and utilize powerful computing resources available for compute-intensive tasks • Collaboration Services • Facilitate collaboration on research and teaching activities PittGrid
PittGrid: Plan • Develop a prototype PittGrid in phases • Develop an infrastructure and a set of generic tools useful for the research community at Pitt • Work closely with CSSD to design and develop PittGrid • Work with CSSD to maintain PittGrid PittGrid
PittGrid Prototype: Partners • School of Information Science • Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center • Computing Services and Systems Development • Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics • Department of Chemistry • Department of Pharmacology • Department of Physics PittGrid
PittGrid Prototype: Phase I • Objective • To provide the ability to access additional CPU time and memory in order to run complex calculations using existing resources • Functionality • Allow users to submit jobs involving complex computations to underutilized CPU’s participated to the PittGrid network • Upon submission of a job, this service would search for available workstations and clusters that participate in PittGrid and that can meet the requirements of the job PittGrid
PittGrid Prototype: Phase I Tasks • Identify available resources • Define membership policies • Install the infrastructure (a middleware) • Develop and customize the middleware • Test the installed infrastructure • Develop grid services • Test the grid services PittGrid