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SweGrid A National Grid Initiative within SNIC Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. Conference xxx - August 2003. Sverker Holmgren SNIC Director. SNIC?. A metacenter, organized within Vetenskapsrådet. Formed 2003, but builds on much older computer centers. Mission:
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SweGridA National Grid InitiativewithinSNICSwedish National Infrastructure for Computing Conference xxx - August 2003 Sverker Holmgren SNIC Director
SNIC? A metacenter, organized within Vetenskapsrådet. Formed 2003, but builds on much older computer centers. • Mission: • Provide funding for computing resources for academic research in Sweden • Coordinate investments, user support and competence • Provide mechanisms for resource allocation • Fund and coordinate development projects • Manage the Swedish interface to large international collaborations and projects • Host the Swedish National Graduate School in Scientific Computing (NGSSC) NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SNIC? • Means: • Work by the 6 SNIC centers • A board and a very small executive organization • Strategic plan; “The Swedish Computing Landscape” • Current version: 2006-2009 • New version being produced right now: 2008-2011 • HPC2N (Umeå) • UPPMAX (Uppsala) • PDC (Stockholm) • NSC (Linköping) • C3SE (Göteborg) • LUNARC (Lund) NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SNIC 2008 HPC resources Grid resources Storage resources Funding: Approx. 9,2 MEUR (significant increase from earlier) Development projects (HPC, Grid, Storage) Allocation procedures User support Community building Proposals and reports (e.g. SweScience) Outreach Education (NGSSC) Participation in international collaboration (PRACE-DS, EGI-DS, NDGF (Nordic T1), EGEE, ...) NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SNIC 2008 • Computational resources: • Large-scale national resources • Group-specific large-scale resources (KAW collaboration) • Foundation level resources (at all centers) • Currently: 22 systems, 13490 cores • Largest: Neolith at NSC, 6440 cores, 60 Tflop • Currently about 400 user groups, growing • Significant new investments for SNIC users now • About 20000 new cores in 8 months • SweGrid is an integrated part of SNIC • Goal: All SNIC systems available via Grid interface NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SweGrid? • The Swedish NGI (MoU signed between SNIC and centers) • The Swedish production grid system • Collaboration SNIC – the Swedish LHC consortium (LHCK) NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SweGrid Phase I – A Production Testbed • Initiative from • Users • High energy physics • Life Science • Earth Sciences • Space & Astro Physics • All HPC-centers in Sweden • IT-researchers wanting to research Grid technology • First generation hardware in use spring 2004 • 6 clusters with 100 processors each • 410 TB storage NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SweGrid Production Testbed • Total budget 3.6 MEuro • 6 GRID nodes • 600 CPUs • IA-32, 1 processor/server • 2.8 GHz Intel P4 • 2 Gbyte • Gigabit Ethernet • 12 TByte temporary storage • FibreChannel for bandwidth • 410 TByte nearline storage • 140 TByte disk • 270 TByte tape • 1 Gigabit direct connection to SUNET (10 Gbps) NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SweGrid status 2007 • Nodes installed January 2004, now becoming old • Extensive use of the resources • Resource allocation via the national allocations committee (SNAC) • GRID queues through the NorduGrid middlware – ARC • Some nodes also available using gLite. Part of EGEE North Federation resources • 17 non-LHCK groups applied for SweGrid resources • About 60 national users • 1/3 of SweGrid is dedicated to HEP (200 CPUs) • Contributing to LCG challenges • Forms the core of the Northern EGEE ROC • Accounting has been introduced – SGAS NORDUnet 2008-04-10
National projects and services 2007 • Grid resource brokering, Umeå • Grid portals (general, application oriented), Umeå, Lund • Grid accounting, SweGrid Accounting System (SGAS), Stockholm, Uppsala, Umeå • Grid security research – focused on trust models, Stockholm, Umeå and Uppsala • Parallel Object Query System for Expensive Computations (POQSEC) on Grids, Uppsala • National Helpdesk, all SweGrid centers • National storage solutions, all SNIC centers NORDUnet 2008-04-10
Persistent storage on SweGrid? 2 This was the choice! 1 3 Bandwidth Availability Size Administration NORDUnet 2008-04-10
The first users of SweGrid NORDUnet 2008-04-10
User survey 2005:How have you found porting your applications to SweGrid to be? NORDUnet 2008-04-10
User survey 2005: What is your overall impression of use of SweGrid resources? NORDUnet 2008-04-10
Summarizing the SweGrid Production Testbed effort • Unified the Swedish Supercomputing Community • Raised additional private funding for computing infrastructure • Spawned national Grid R&D projects • Created early user Grid awareness • Created an interface to EU-projects • EGEE • Regional operations center co-operated with SweGrid • Co-ordination of EGEE security • Co-ordination of Baltic Grid Initiative NORDUnet 2008-04-10
SweGrid Phase II • New clusters and storage are being installed • Almost 3000 cores • LHCK (33%) and general use (66%) • 340 TB disk • Mainly for LHCK • Long-term plan for further upgrades • During 2008: Additional 320 cores, 750 TB disk, 3 new tape storage facilities • Other SNIC systems (capability clusters, SMP) also available within SweGrid NORDUnet 2008-04-10
New projects and services, started • National storage project – Next phase (“SweStore”) • Partly using SweGrid storage • Collaboration with Database Infrastructure Committee (DISC) • Establishing collaboration with Nordic centers • Application portal, middleware independent • Chemistry • Genetics • Astrophysics • … • Bioinformatics workflow system • BioGrid (NDGF) • More work on accounting, scheduling etc NORDUnet 2008-04-10
Examples of proposed projects • Grid portals/interfaces, “science gateways” • Cloud computing initiative (“SweCloud”) • Study on impact of virtualization techniques • SOA-based middleware-independent tools • Accounting • Job management framework • Scheduling NORDUnet 2008-04-10
Swedish Grid Strategy • Described in the SNIC Landscape Document • SweGrid/NGI is an integrated part of SNIC • SweGrid is an essential part of the infrastructure for Swedish e-Science • SNIC proposal for a Swedish e-Science program • Coordination of SweGrid and HPC, e.g “PRACE-Grid” • Swedish participation in EGI • Swedish participation in e.g. ESFRI projects • All SNIC resources should be available via SweGrid • Alternative to traditional means of access • New applications enabled • New interfaces • R&D efforts to provide services and components • SweGrid provides a basis for Swedish participation in major international projects NORDUnet 2008-04-10