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Grid activities in Sweden

Grid activities in Sweden. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002. What is Grid?. Grid means a technology to join together computers at different locations, and to provide easy access to this capacity. User can get access to computer capacity anywhere in the Grid.

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Grid activities in Sweden

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  1. Grid activities in Sweden Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  2. What is Grid? • Grid means a technology to join together computers at different locations, and to provide easy access to this capacity. • User can get access to computer capacity anywhere in the Grid. • World-wide-webaccess to information • World-wide-gridaccess to PC capacity • Grid can be local-national-worldwide • Initiated in the end-90’s in the US by physicists who wanted to connect together the US supercomputer centers. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  3. Who are interested in Grid? • All areas of basic research which deal with large amounts of data and/or large computing requirements, for example biomedicine, earth sciences, space/astrophysics, particle physics, etc. • All areas of applied research which deal with large amounts of data and/or large computing requirements, for example analysis of financial markets, industrial process optimization, industrial design, etc. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  4. Who are interested in Grid? • Purely commercial interests: film animation, electronic commerce etc. • IBM, Sun, Compaq, Platform Computing are some of the IT companies which have joined the Grid development. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  5. Swedish activities - history • PDC: participation in Globus and Condor – development of tools • March 2000 Lund workshop: first discussion on using Grid for basic research in particle physics • During 2000: DataGrid and NorduGrid projects are formed. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  6. Swedish activities 2001 • Testbeds: building, testing and developing Grid in the framework of DataGrid and NorduGrid. Generic research in Grid-systems. • Tools: development of middleware in the framework of DataGrid. Generic research in Grid-components. • Funding of Swedish activities: EU (DataGrid), Nordunet-2 (NorduGrid) Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  7. Sweden in the DataGrid • Swedish participation in the EU DataGrid project: VR (SWEGRID) is an associate partner to CERN. • Three-year project 2001-2003.Total budget 9.8 MEuro (EU) + 9.8 Meuro (participants). • EU funding available to Sweden: 36 personmonths PDC (tools) and 18 personmonths KI (applications). Counterfinancing by PDC and KI concerning these positions. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  8. WP2 Data Management, WP10 Biology Applications • PDC: Grid Data Management(WP2). Secure infrastructure and access. • KI: Biology Applications (WP10).Genomics, esp. data mining in distributed databases. • Uppsala: Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, genome sequencing, requiring distributed databases. No EU funding. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  9. WP6 Testbeds, WP8 HEP Applications • Lund U, Stockholm U and Uppsala U:Testbed and Demonstrators Work Package (WP6), HEP Applications Work Package (WP8). • Participation through the NorduGrid project, no EU funding. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  10. Sweden in the NorduGrid • The NorduGrid project creates a Nordic branch of the DataGrid. • The project is financed via the Nordunet2 programme. • January 2001 - November 2002. Budget 2.2 MDKK. Coordinator J Renner Hansen, NBI, funds administered by NBI. • NorduGrid testbed is a part of the DataGrid Testbed Workpackage (WP6) Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  11. NorduGrid sites&connections Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  12. NorduGrid status • NorduGrid funds personnel (2/3) and small farms (few PCs) (1/3) in Lund, Uppsala, Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen. • Three postdoc positions in Lund (BKónya), Uppsala (MEllert) and Oslo. • Status: farms are configured and Grid-enabled. Can perform simple applications. • Adapted, installed and tested Grid-services : Certification Authority, NorduGrid Information System, NorduGrid Virtual Organization, Grid Data Mirroring Package, GridFTP. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  13. Swedish activities 2002 • As in 2001: Testbed and tool development in the framework of DataGrid and NorduGrid. • Funding of Swedish activities: EU (DataGrid), Nordunet-2 (NorduGrid), VR (participation in the LHC Grid prototype project at CERN). • Still no Swedish funding for activities in Sweden, despite of submitted project applications to VR, SSF and VINNOVA. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  14. Planned future • Swedish funding is essential to develop competence and infrastructure in the research groups and computer centers. • Sweden can contribute best to the Nordic and world-wide development with a solid and strong national research basis. • Strategic importance of Grid-competence has been emphasized by VR (SWEGRID, CERN Committee), and even acknowleged by the government. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  15. Planned future: Nordic Grid-Centre • In a few years, it is foreseen that a Nordic Grid-Centre will be created. • The Nordic Centre will be a so-called Tier-1 Centre with a capacity of about 1700 x (Dual 1 GHz Intel PIII) plus fileservers and tape robots. • Financial scope 150 MSEK (16MEuro). • The Centre will serve all interested fields of science. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  16. NOS-N role • NOS-N has a working group to investigate the establishment of a Nordic Grid-Centre (chair L Nilsson). • As a part of this process, NOS-N is discussing about continuing the NorduGrid project for 2003-2004. • Continued NorduGrid: funding frame 0.5 MEuro/year (4.5 MSEK), personnel and dedicated hardware. J Renner Hansen (NBI) and J Järvinen (CSC, Finland) are drafting a proposal). Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  17. Planned future: Sweden • Expression of Interest: Development of GRID testbed in Sweden (Swedish informal GRID consortium, T Ekelöf). Generic research in Grid-systems. • Includes biomedical science, earth sciences, space/astro, high-energy physics, information sciences, computer centers. • Proposal in 2001 (SSF-KAW): personnel costs 20 MSEK, hardware 22 MSEK. Rejected. • Will be reformulated and resubmitted to VR in 2002, taking into account the synergy with the possibly continued NorduGrid project. • First phase of the Nordic GRID Centre (if in Sweden), or satellite centre (”Tier-2”). Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

  18. Other countries? • Nordic: e.g. Finland funds Grid development through Helsinki Institute of Physics (state research) and private foundations. Funding abound 0.5 MEuro/year. • Europe: e.g. Italy 10 MEuro in 2002 (compare 27 MEuro for HEP experiments at accelerators). • EU 6th Framework Programme: Grid 40 MEuro/year for 5 years, plus 30 MEuro/year from Information Society Programme. Paula Eerola IT seminar, Vetenskapsrådet, 14.2.2002

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