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Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE)

Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE). Charles Koelbel Rice University. Outline. Who and what is TIGRE? TIGRE Activities TIGRE Application Example Final Thoughts. Texas A&M. Texas Tech. Univ. of Texas at Austin. Houston. Who Is TIGRE?.

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Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE)

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  1. Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) Charles Koelbel Rice University

  2. Outline • Who and what is TIGRE? • TIGRE Activities • TIGRE Application Example • Final Thoughts

  3. Texas A&M Texas Tech Univ. of Texasat Austin Houston Who Is TIGRE? • A project of the HighPerformance ComputingAcross Texas (HiPCAT)organization • Composed of 5 leading research universities

  4. What is TIGRE? • Part of the State of Texas’ plan to support CyberInfrastructure • LEARN: $7.3M / 33 institutions • Lonestar Education And Research Network • Network (fiber, routers, etc.) to connect institutions • (But that’s another talk…) • TIGRE: $2.5M / 5 schools • People to build and support the software • TIGRE goals • Implement and deploy grid software • Note: funded as construction project, not research • Support three applications “of economic interest to the State of Texas” • Document best practices, train potential users

  5. Denton Dallas Lubbock Longview El Paso Waco Beaumont CollegeStation San Antonio Galveston Austin NLR Houston CorpusChristi LEARN (Sept. 2006) LEARN (2007) Where is TIGRE?

  6. Outline • Who and what is TIGRE? • TIGRE Activities • TIGRE Application Example • Final Thoughts

  7. TIGRE Portal and Testbed http://tigreportal.hipcat.net/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=resources

  8. Server software stack Globus 4.x (pre-web services & web services servers) GPIR monitoring GSI OpenSSH server Client software stack Client software stack Globus 4.x (pre-web services and web services clients) GSI OpenSSH client UberFTP MyProxy client Condor-G TIGRE Software Stacks Both drawn from Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT) Storage is still an unresolved issue for TIGRE

  9. TIGRE Target Applications • Biology and Medicine • Ultrascan - data analysis from ultracentrifuge • MCNP - proton beam therapy for cancer • Radiotherapy modeling • Environmental quality • WRF-Chem - air quality forecast over Houston • Energy • Eclipse - reservoir modeling • DSNMO - seismic inversion • Grid-ready codes • “The low-hanging fruit”

  10. TIGRE Global Scheduler (candidates) • Gridge Resource Management System (GRMS) • http://www.gridge.org/content/view/30/66/ • Gridway • http://www.gridway.org/

  11. Outline • Who and what is TIGRE? • TIGRE Activities • TIGRE Application Example • Final Thoughts

  12. T = 0 T > 0 T =  Inverse Problem! UltraScan - A TIGRE Target Application • Comprehensive data analysis package • Integrated data editing, analysis environment, MySQL database, parallel Monte Carlo analysis • From UT Health Science Center San Antonio • For analytical ultracentrifugation experiments • Analyze wavelengths of scatted light • Many samples at many locations over time • Compute number of components, molecular weights, shapes, interactions • Solve by genetic algorithm (optimization) • Embarrassingly parallel, but overwhelms UTHSCSA’s 128-node cluster

  13. Centrifuge data TIGRE / Ultrascan Demo TIGRE Portal

  14. Ultrascan on TIGRE -Results • "I can now do science that was not possible before.” • - Borries Demmler, UTHSCSA, Ultrascan creator

  15. Outline • Who and what is TIGRE? • TIGRE Activities • TIGRE Application Example • Final Thoughts

  16. Leveraging TIGRE for VGrADS • Obvious target of opportunity • Two common players • Both sides reasonably open to collaboration • Both sides interested in outreach (albeit not the same kind) • Application challenges • VGrADS contribution needs to be robust • Or modular and applied sparingly • 2-phase scheduling, BQP may fit the bill now • New twists for VGrADS • DSNMO - needs dynamic compilation, may need app mgr • MCNP - needs access control • WRF-Chem - needs data management, may need deadline scheduling

  17. Backup slides go here

  18. TIGRE Testbed Note: All access donated by the home institution; no equipment budget

  19. Year 1 (start 12/1/2005) Q1 Certificate Authority, minimal testbed Q2 Portal (alpha quality) http://tigreportal.hipcat.net/ Q3 Define server software stack Simple application demonstration Q4 Client software stack Year 2 Q1 Customer management service (alpha) Q2 Global grid scheduler Q3 Stable software stack available Q4 Hardening, documenting, demonstrating TIGRE Milestones

  20. Why TIGRE?(Do We Need Yet Another Grid?) • Texas is looking to the future • Creating statewide CyberInfrastructure • Supporting existing research and education • Attracting new industry • TIGRE funded from Texas Enterprise Fund • Computers and networks are already (partly) there • LEARN • UT Austin a partner in TeraGrid • We need the people to make it work • Build the grid! • Funded as a construction project, not research • Support software • Reach out • To non-research schools, maybe to K-12

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