CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative

1. CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative Marios D. Dikaiakos University of Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus http://cygrid.org.cy

2. Outline • e-Infrastructures in Cyprus: the Landscape • CyGrid: Objectives and Activities • The Road Ahead

3. The Landscape • Who? • The players: providers and users of e-Infrastructures • Why? • Interests and on-going activities establishing the need • What? • Existing resources supporting on-going e-Infrastructure-oriented activities • How? • Support and Funding

4. Who? Academia & Research • University of Cyprus: • Public research-oriented University (established in 1989) • 5000 undergraduate students, 500 post-graduate students • Faculties of Pure and Applied Sciences, Engineering, Economics and Management • Operates CYNET • Intercollege, Cyprus College, Frederick Institute of Technology: • Mainly teaching institutions • 8000-10000 undergraduate students • Nicosia General Hospital • Largest hospital in Cyprus; Intensive Care Forum • Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) • Established in 1990. • 130 staff members • Cyprus Intl’ Inst. for the Environment and Public Health (CII) • Established jointly by the government of Cyprus and Harvard University in 2005

5. Why? Research Activities • Physics: Theoretical Biophysics, Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Experimental High-Energy Physics • Chemistry: Materials Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry • Biology: Bioinformatics • Medicine: Intensive Care Medicine • Computer Science & Engineering: Grid Computing,Computer Architecture, Distributed Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Planning and AI • Economics & Management: Computational Finance and Economics • Applied Mathematics: Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography, Multiscale simulation and modeling in Nanotechnology Source: “High-Performance Computing in Cyprus.” prof. Costantia Alexandrou, In Strengthening Computational Science in Europe, NIC Juelich, 16/1/06

6. What? Existing Resources • UCY: • 420 CPUs spread in several clusters in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering • Frederick Institute of Technology: • 128-CPU cluster (AMD Opteron) • Intercollege: • 20 CPUcluster (Sun, Solaris) • Cyprus Research and Education Network: • Operated by the University of Cyprus • 155 Mbps connection to GEANT2 and 45 Mbps connection to EUMEDCONNECT

7. How? Funding • Institutional budgets: • Basic infrastructures, clusters, networking, support, salaries • National research funding: Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (http://www.research.org.cy) • Funding for purchasing equipment for new Laboratories • Funding of targeted, applied-research programs • European Union: • Information Societies and Technology Program (FP5, FP6) • Eumedis (MEDA) • Currently, there is no national coordinated funding activity on e-Infrastructures and e-Science

8. Outline • e-Infrastructures in Cyprus: the Landscape • CyGrid: Objectives and Activities • The Road Ahead

9. The CyGrid Initiative • Established in 2002 in the University of Cyprus • Main goals: • To establish a Cypriot presence in international Grid infrastructures. • To develop local know-how and expertise on the development and operation of Grid technologies. • To promote the uptake of Grid technologies in Cyprus, the interconnection of existing and future resources, and the deployment of new applications. • To support research in Grid and Global Computing. • Funding from: • EU-IST (APART, CrossGrid, CoreGRID, EGEE, EGEE-II, g-Eclipse) • Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (eScience-CY) • University of Cyprus

10. CyGrid Activities • Infrastructure Operation • Application Deployment • Extending to other Institutions • Training and Dissemination • Grid Computing research

11. CyGrid Infrastructure • Two clusters with 90 CPUs • Gb Ethernet (Micronet copper switch) • 2.1 PB Storage Server (FiberChannel) • Resource Broker and Information Index for EGEE-SEE Federation • Network Connectivity: • Through CyNet to Geant (155 MBps to Athens) • To EMISPHER Satellite Network

12. CyGrid Infrastructure

13. CyGrid Clusters

14. CyGrid in International Testbeds • CrossGrid (2002-2006) • EGEE & EGEE-II (2004-2008) • PlanetLab (joined 2006) • Hosts the Resource Broker and Information Index of the South-East Europe VO of EGEE

15. CyGrid Accounting

16. CyGrid Certification Authority • Top level certification authority for Grids in Cyprus: • certified by EUgridPMA, the European Grid Policy Management Authority • member of EUgridPMA since its inception in 2003 • mutually recognized by grid CAs of European countries, the USA, and the Russian Federation • Provides X.509 certificates for authentication and authorization purposes for grid users, grid machines/nodes, and grid services. • Managing authority for Registration Authorities operating at CyGrid Resource Centre • Total certificates issued so far: 80 • Website: http://cygrid.org.cy/CyGridCA

17. Application Deployment • Local Applications: • Quantum Chromo-Dynamics - measuring the properties of gluons -- Done (2004). New effort for a different QCD application about to start. • CompChem (gamess) application for molecular dynamics -- Porting Stage. • Computer Architecture - SimpleScalar Simulator is a tool-set primarily used for hardware-software co-verification, and for building detailed micro-architectural modeling -- Ported, testing phase. • Computer Graphics - Distributed rendering -- Windows(R) application running on Linux using the WINE compatibility layer. Opens the door for Windows-based applications -- In progress • Consulting application developers on how to port their applications. • Data challenges: • Participation in the WISDOM biomed data challenge in 2005 • Participation in the on-going experiment for drug discovery for the H5N1 virus. (committed additional resources: ~40 extra CPU's onto the existing 30% of time allocation for the BIOMED VO)

18. Extending to other Institutions • New Nicosia General Hospital • A DataGrid node is being established at the ICU • Connection to CyGrid infrastructure • Future connection to EGEE nodes in ICS-FORTH, Venizeleion Hospital (Greece); funding pending from Interreg program. • Intercollege • Plans to join CyGrid/EGEE-II with a small cluster • Access through HPCL/UCY given to: • Intercollege • Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) • Frederick Institute of Technology (Physics) • Invitations • CING • Frederick Institute of Technology • Other Labs of the UCY

19. Extending to other Institutions: NGH • DataGrid Node at the New Nicosia General Hospital

20. CyGrid Events • Grid Day APART Workshop, March 2002. • Winter school on middleware, January 2004. • IST Concertation Meeting on Grid Research (Jan 2004). • CrossGrid Workshop and Integration Meeting, January 2004. • 2nd European Across Grids Conference (AxGrids 2004), January 2004. • "2004cc: Continuity of Care in e-Health", Conference in ICT Applications & Development of New e-Health Technologies, June 2004. • Science Day at the University of Cyprus, October 2005. • "EGEE: Introduction to Grids" Seminar, March 2006.

21. CyGrid Presentations • "Searching within Large Grid Infrastructures."Parallel Computing Research Seminar of University of Paderborn, Queen's Bay Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus, March 3, 2006. • “CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative" by M. D. Dikaiakos. Medical Intensive Care Forum: "Congress Elysium Hotel", Paphos, Cyprus, 27-28 January 2006 (event type: conference; scientific community, medical and health sector, attendees: 150). • "CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative" by M. D. Dikaiakos. The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25th January 2006 (event type: seminar; scientific community, medical and biologists, attendees: 30) • Science Day II at the University of Cyprus, demos and presentation by George Tsouloupas to High Schools students; 19 November 2005 (event type: open day; community: High school students, sciences) • Science Day at the University of Cyprus, demos and presentations by Kyriacos Neokleous and George Tsouloupas to High Schools students; Nicosia, Cyprus 8 October 2005 (event type: open day; community: High school students, sciences) • “Grid Explorations” by Marios Dikaiakos, Department of Computer Science Seminar, University of Cyprus; 11 March 2005 (event type: seminar; scientific community, computer science) • “ICU: Internal Care & Grids” Dr. Theodoros Kyprianou from Nicosia General Hospital presented at 2004c – eInfrastructures in Cyprus 26 June 2004 (audience scientific; event broadcasted via satellite from Cyprus to Algeria attendees: 200) ; • “The EGEE Project and CyGrid” by Marios Dikaiakos presented at 2004cc – eInfrastructures in Cyprus, 26 June 2004 (event type: conference, audience scientific; event broadcasted via satellite from Cyprus to Algeria, attendees: 200); • “e-Infrastructures and CyGrid” by Marios Dikaiakos presented at the Post-graduate seminar 2003 “Post-Operative Intensive Care” University of Cyprus (audience scientific-medical; event broadcasted via teleconferencing system from Cyprus to Israel attendees: 100) ; • "Design and Development of a core Grid Ontology",by Wei Xing. 3rd Semantic Grid Workshop, GGF16 in Athens, February 15, 2006. • “CyGrid and EGEE” presentation by Michalis Elinas. e-NEXT meeting, Athens, Greece, 17 December 2005 (event type: project meeting) • “Grid Performance Exploration” by Marios Dikaiakos presented to the Department of Computer Science, University of California, USA;10 June 2005 (event type: seminar; scientific community, computer science) • “Test Driving the Grid” by Marios Dikaiakos. Department of Computer Science Colloquium, Rutgers University, USA; 20 May 2005 (event type: seminar; scientific community, computer science) • “The EGEE Project” Maria Poveda presented at the 8th Meeting of the Tunisian Society of Informatics (broadcast by satellite from Cyprus to Tunisia, Germany, Algeria) in Tunis, Tunisia; 26 February 2005 (event type: seminar; scientific community, informatics; 40 attendees). • “The EGEE Project” Maria Poveda presented at "From EMISPHER towards a Virtual Euro-Mediterranean Hospital (VEMH)" EMISPHER Meeting of the Deans of the Medical Faculties, in Berlin, Germany, 4 December 2004 (event type: government/political; scientific audience: medical and computer science; 20 attendees); • "Test driving the Grid" by Marios Dikaiakos in ICS-FORTH, Herakleion, Greece, 22 October 2004 (event type: seminar, audience scientific / technical);

22. Dissemination in Scientific Events • 31- 4 November 2005 OnTheMove-OTM 2005 Federated Conferences, Ayia Napa, Cyprus; (event type: conference; scientific community, computer science, atendees: 150) • 10 October 2005, Particle Physics in the 21st Century, University of Cyprus (event type: seminar; scientific community, physics; atendees: 20) • 14-17 July 2005 Workshop on Computational Hadron Physics, University of Cyprus (event type: workshop; scientific community, physicists); • 1 July 2005 5thGRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus (event type: conference; scientific community); • 27-29 June 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Control in Limassol, Cyprus (event type: conference; community: IEEE CSS - Control Systems Society; attendees 250); • 21-22 June 2005 Workshop on Climate Change and Energy Pathways for the Mediterranean at University of Cyprus (event type: workshop; scientific community, audience physicists; 30 attendees); • 3 June 2005 “Characterisation and Correlation of Elastic and Conductive Properties of Microstructured Solids” for Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineers at the University of Cyprus (event type: seminar; scientific community) • 11-13 April 2005 “11th European Wireless Conference”, Nicosia, Cyprus (event type: conference; scientific community; audience 120 attendees); • June 2004"2004cc: Continuity of Care in e-Health", Conference in ICT Applications & Development of New e-Health Technologies. • 10 March 2004, “A Grid-Computing Infrastructure for Monte Carlo Applications” Nicosia, Cyprus, (event type: seminar; scientific/technical audience); • January 2004, 2nd European Across Grids Conference (AxGrids 2004). • January 2004, Winter school on middleware. • March 2002, Grid Day APART Workshop. • 17 January 2005, “First CoreGRID Workshop on GRID and P2P Systems Architecture”, Herakleion, Greece (event type: conference, audience scientific/technical; 100 attendees); • 23-26 October 2004, "Open Grid Day" Lisbon, Portugal (event type: conference; audience scientific / technical); • 24-26 October 2004, ‘NexWay Workshop: Part of SympoTIC’04” Bradislava, Slovakia (event type: conference; scientific/technical audience);

23. Dissemination at large • POLITIS Newspaper (Cyprus), 9 September 2005 published an article EGEE Battles Malaria with Grid Wisdom (circulation 13,000); • PHILELEFTHEROS newspaper 6 May 2004Launch of the EGEE Project. (circulation 27,000) ; • PAROIKIAKI newspaper of London, 27 February 2004;article on AxGrids 2004 Conference • CHARAVGI newspaper, 10 February 2004; article on AxGrids 2004 Conference • ALITHIA newspaper, 11 February 2004; article on AxGrids 2004 Conference • Cyprus Computer Society magazine, (May 2006); article on e-Infrastructures and CyGrid • KOINOTHTA magazine, October 2005 (the University of Cyprus newsletter) published an article on “Drug Discovery using In Silico docking” (page 5 and 20, in Greek; circulation 6,700); • KOINOTHTA magazine January 2005 issue (the University of Cyprus newsletter) published an article about the collaboration between CyGrid with Grid Ireland (in Greek; circulation 6,700); • KOINOTHTA magazine June 2004 edition (the University of Cyprus newsletter) Launch of the EGEE Project announcement (circulation 6,700); • CoreGRID newsletter March 2005 issue published an article on "GridBench: A Tool for Benchmarking Grids", (available electronically in the CoreGRID web site 333368 visitors in the first year); • Press Releases:(in Greek) • Global e-Infrastructure Reports Landmark Results at European Conference. 28 November 2005; • Open Day: The Grid and Neglected Diseases.16 June 2005; • EGEE Battles Malaria With Grid Wisdom. 26 August 2005; • EGEE Makes Rapid Earthquake Analysis Possible. 17 June 2005; • EGEE Speeds Up Hunt for New Malaria Drugs. 18 May 2005; • EGEE Celebrates First Birthday in Athens. 22 April 2005; • First Industrial Application Is Running On EGEE. 7 March 2005; • EGEE Branches Out in the Med. 1 March 2005 (posted on the front page of the EGEE website); • EGEE Presented in Cyprus. 16 July 2004;

24. CyGrid Web Site

25. CyGrid Web Site: How to Join?

26. CyGrid Web Site: Local Services

27. Grid Computing Research • Tools: • GridBench: • An open-source tool for auditing Grid infrastructures (developped under CrossGrid, ported to EGEE) • Exploitation requests by several institutions (academia, Grid operators, industry): EU, USA, Brazil, Thailand • Ovid Browser: • A universal client for Grid monitoring systems • A Search Engine for software deployed on EGEE • Semantic Grid and Ontologies: • Design of a Core Grid Ontology with Protégé and OWL • Collaboration with U. of Manchester • Resource Discovery in Grids: • Collaboration with ISTI-CNR, Pisa and ICS-FORTH • Grid Dependability: • Collaboration with DTelekom Labs, Berlin

28. Grid Computing Research • M. D. Dikaiakos, "Grid Benchmarking: Vision, Challenges, and Current Status."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal, Wiley (accepted for publication). • W. Xing, M. D. Dikaiakos, and R. Sakellariou. "A Core Grid Ontology for the Semantic Grid." Accepted for publication at the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 16-19, 2006, Singapore • M. D. Dikaiakos, A. Artemiou, and G. Tsouloupas. "Towards a Universal Client for Grid Monitoring Systems."11th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (in conjunction with the 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006), April 25-29, 2006, Rhodes, Greece • E. Tsiakkouri, R. Sakellariou, H. Zhao, and M. D. Dikaiakos. "Scheduling Workflows with Budget Constraints." In Proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop "Integrated research in Grid Computing," S. Gorlatch and M. Danelutto (Eds.), Technical Report TR-05-22, University of Pisa, Dipartimento Di Informatica, Pisa, Italy, Nov. 28-30, 2005, pages 347-357 . • Charis Papadakis, Paraskevi Fragopoulou, Elias Athanasopoulos, Marios Dikaiakos, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Evangelos Markatos. "A Feedback-based Approach to Reduce Duplicate Messages in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks.”In Proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop "Integrated research in Grid Computing," S. Gorlatch and M. Danelutto (Eds.), Technical Report TR-05-22, University of Pisa, Dipartimento Di Informatica, Pisa, Italy, Nov. 28-30, 2005, pages 145-155 • M. D. Dikaiakos, R. Sakellariou, and Y. Ioannidis. "Information Services for Large-scale Grids: A Case for a Grid Search Engine." In Engineering the Grid: status and perspective, Jack Dongarra, Hans Zima, Adolfy Hoisie, Laurence Yang, Beniamino DiMartino (Editors), American Scientific Publishers, January 2006. • W. Xing, M. Dikaiakos, H. Yang, A. Sphyris, G. Eftychidis, "Building a Distributed Digital Library for Natural Disasters Metadata with Grid Services and RDF." Library Management Journal (Special Issue on Digital Libraries in the Knowledge Era: Knowledge Management and Semantic Web Technology). Vol. 26, No. 4-5, May 2005, Emerald • A. Tiramo-Ramos, G. Tsouloupas, M. Dikaiakos , P. Sloot, "Grid Resource Selection by Application Benchmarking: a Computational Haemodynamics Case Study." In Computational Science - ICCS 2005, 5th International Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3514, pages 534-543, Springer, May 2005. • E. Kenny, B. Coghlan, G. Tsouloupas, M. Dikaiakos, J. Walsh, S. Childs, D. O'Callaghan and G. Quigley, "Heterogeneous Grid Computing: Issues and Early Benchmarks." In Computational Science - ICCS 2005, 5th International Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3516, pages 870-874, Springer, May 2005. • G. Tsouloupas, M. D. Dikaiakos. "Design and Implementation of GridBench." In Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. European Grid Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14-16, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3470, pages 211-225, Springer, June 2005 • W. Xing, M. Dikaiakos, Hua Yang, A. Sphyris, G. Eftychidis, "A Grid-enabled Digital Library System for Natural Disaster Metadata." in Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. European Grid Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14-16, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3470, pages 516-526, Springer, June 2005. • J. Gomes; M. David; J. Martins; L. Bernardo; A. Garcia; M. Hardt; H. Kornmayer; J. Marco; D. Rodriguez; I. Diaz; D. Cano; J. Salt; S. Gonzalez; J. Sanchez; F. Fassi; V; Lara; P. Nyczyk; P. Lason; A. Ozieblo; P. Wolniewicz; M. Bluj; K. Nawrocki; A. Padee; W. Wislicki; C. Fernandez; J. Fontan; Y. Cotronis; E. Floros; G. Tsouloupas; W. Xing; M. Dikaiakos ; J. Astalos; B. Coghlan; E. Heymann; M. Senar; C. Kanellopoulos; A. Tirado-Ramos and D.J. Groen: Experience with the International Testbed in the CrossGrid Project, in Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. European Grid Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14-16, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3470, pages 98-110, Springer, June 2005. • M. Georgiadou, G. Tsouloupas, M. D. Dikaiakos, A. Tsapalis, C. Alexandrou, “Running QCD Computations on the Grid." Technical Report TR-2004-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, July 2004 . • A. Garcia, M. Hardt and G. Tsouloupas. Simplified Deployment of a LCG cluster via LCFG-UML. In Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2004, 2004. • M. Dikaiakos, A. Artemiou, "Ovid: A Browser for Grids." Electronic Proceedings of the 2nd European Across Grids Conference. Nicosia, Cyprus, January 2004 • M. Dikaiakos, Y. Ioannidis, R. Sakellariou, "Search Engines for the Grid: A Research Agenda." In Grid Computing. First European AcrossGrids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 2003, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 2970, pages 49-58, vol. 2970, Springer, 2004 • J. Marco, R. Marco, D. Rodriguez, J. Salt, S. Gonzales, J. Sanchez, A. Fuentes, J. Gomes, M. David, J. Martins, L. Bernardo, M. Hardt, A. Garcia, P. Nyczyk, A. Ozjeblo, P. Wolniewicz, A. Padee, M. Bluj, C. Fernadez, J. Fontan, A. Gomez, I. Lopez, Y. Cotronis, V. Floros, G. Tsouloupas, W. Xing, M. Dikaiakos et al., "First Prototype of the CrossGrid Testbed." Grid Computing. First European AcrossGrids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 2003, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 2970, pages 67-77, Springer, 2004. • G. Tsouloupas, M. Dikaiakos, "GridBench: A Tool for Benchmarking Grids." In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), pages 60-67, Phoenix, Arizona, 17 November 2003, IEEE Computer Society

29. Outline • e-Infrastructures: The Cypriot Landscape • CyGrid: Objectives and Activities • The Road Ahead

30. Next Steps • Ongoing technical support to institutions that wish to join EGEE • Establishing an e-Science research center in Cyprus • Proposal submitted to the UCY on behalf of faculty members of the Schools of Pure and Applied Sciences, Economics and Management, and Engineering • Goals: • Establish and operate a large, research-oriented infrastructure (with at least 256 computing nodes) • Grid-aware and connected to European Grid infrastructures • Resident research staff for operation and management • Towards a national strategy for e-Infrastructures and e-Science • Memo circulated to Planning Bureau, Ministry of Finance, and the Research Promotion Foundation • Consultations for inclusion to its next Framework Program of actions focusing on establishing and interconnecting e-Infrastructures

31. Thank you!