Wibke Sudholt University of Zurich, Switzerland wibke@oci.uzh.ch Chair of the SwiNG Leader of the

1. The Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG) and the Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG) Project Wibke Sudholt University of Zurich, Switzerland wibke@oci.uzh.ch Chair of the SwiNG Leader of the Executive Board SMSCG Project

2. Overview • Swiss National Grid Association(SwiNG) • National Grid Initiative of Switzerland • Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid(SMSCG) • AAA/SWITCH project • SwiNG Working Group

3. Overview • Swiss National Grid Association(SwiNG) • National Grid Initiative of Switzerland • Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid(SMSCG) • AAA/SWITCH project • SwiNG Working Group

4. Grid in Switzerland before SwiNG • Various, somewhat isolated efforts in the Swiss higher education sector • Few projects within individual research groups • Few projects between a limited number of Swiss partners • Participation in EU-sponsored projects by a few institutions • Participation in LCG / EGEE by a few institutions • Participation in international projects by a few institutions • No national coordination, no dedicated funding

5. Some Grid Projects in Switzerland

6. Situation in Europe • Funding for Grid projects by the EU • Within FP5 / FP6 / FP7 • LCG / EGEE under leadership of high energy physics • Reach-out to other scientific communities • National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) in most European countries, some with considerable funding • e.g., UK e-Science program, German D-Grid, etc. • European Grid Initiative (EGI) • Design study under way

7. What is an NGI = National Grid Initiative? • Must • Have a mandate to represent researchers and institutions in Grid-related matters towards • International bodies (e.g., EU) • Funding agencies • Federal government (SBF, BBT) • Have only one NGI per country • May • Involve only coordination • Develop and operate national Grid infrastructure(s) • Be a legal entity on its own • Be limited to academic or research institutions • Also involve participation by the industry • ‘Coordinating body’ for Grid activities within a nation

8. Stakeholders of SwiNG

9. SwiNG Mission • Ensure competitiveness of Swiss science, education and industry by creating value through resource sharing. • Establish and coordinate a sustainable Swiss Grid infrastructure as a dynamic network of resources across different locations and administrative domains. • Provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration to leverage the Swiss Grid activities, supporting end-users, researchers, education centers, resource providers and industry. • Represent the interests of the national Grid community towards other national and international bodies.

10. Initialisation of SwiNG • Swiss Grid Days involving representatives from many academic institutions • September 28, 2006: EGEE conference, Geneva • November 23, 2006: Bern • December 7, 2006: Grid Crunching Day, Fribourg • May 7, 2007: Bern • Participants identify clear need for an NGI in Switzerland • Initial Working Groups • Mandate Letter WG to propose an organizational structure and initiate the organisation • Seed Project WG to prototype the infrastructure and ‘seed’ it with applications

11. Association Setup • Must be a cooperative effort involving all interested institutions and groups • Assembly→Mandate and governance • Members are institutions • Governing body of the association • Scientific Council→Scientific and technical program • Members are • Research groups with clear scientific interests • IT departments with clear technological / operational interests • Advises Assembly and Executive Board • Executive Board→Running SwiNG’s daily business • Members are elected by the Assembly • Nomination by the Scientific Council • Working Groups→Implementing the SwiNG program • Members are from the Scientific Council • Report to the Executive Board

12. Organisational Structure

13. Association founded in Basel on May 16, 2007 Institutions of the academic sectors invited to become member All cantonal universities All universities of applied sciences ETHZ, EPFL, and ETH Research Institutions Friedrich Miescher Institute Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics CSCS SWITCH Nominations of representatives from 19 institutions Assembly meetings October 31, 2007, Bern January 28, 2008, Bern June 23, 2008, Bern Scientific Council meetings November 2, 2007, Bern May 23, 2008, Bern Leading persons elected Statutes, by-laws, and regulations agreed upon and released Yearly institutional membership fee of CHF 5’000 = annual SwiNG budget of CHF 95’000 Currently lobbying for funding Current Status

14. ETH domain École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) ETH Research Institutions (EAWAG, EMPA, PSI, WSL) Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Cantonal universities Universität Basel (UniBas) Universität Bern (UniBE) Université de Geneve (UniGE) Université de Neuchâtel (UniNE) Université de Lausanne (UNIL) Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) Universität Zürich (UZH) Universities of applied sciences Berner Fachhochschule (BFH) Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO) Hochschule Luzern (HSLU) Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI) Specialized institutions Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Swiss Academic and Research Network (SWITCH) Institutional Members

15. Assembly Representatives

16. CSCS Distributed High Throughput Computing Group EPFL DIT LACAL ETHZ CISD CMS ETHZ & UZH Functional Genomics Centre Zurich HES-SO EIG PSI CMS SIB PIG Vital IT SWITCH Grid Team UniBas Biozentrum DBIS UniBE Computer Services Department LHEP UniGE HEP USI Software Composition UZH Computational Structural Biology IT Services OCI Computational Chemistry & Grid Computing Member Groups in Scientific Council

17. Leading Persons • Executive Board • SwiNG president & Assembly chairperson:Dean Flanders (FMI) • Chairperson:Wibke Sudholt (UZH) Interior • Nabil Abdennadher (HES-SO) Outreach • Peter Kunszt (CSCS) National • Heinz Stockinger (SIB) International • Christoph Witzig (SWITCH) Finance and Legal • Scientific Council • Chairperson:Michael Podvinec (UniBas)

18. Initial Grid Testbed and Applications • Goals of the Seed Working Group • Identify available resources (people, hardware, middleware, applications, ideas) • Propose initial projects (“low hanging fruits”) • Coordination and realization of the seed project • Seed Working Group publication • A. Abdennadher, P. Engel, D. Feichtinger, D. Flanders, P. Flury, S. Haug, P. Jermini, S. Maffioletti, C. Pautasso, H. Stockinger, W. Sudholt, M. Thiemard, N. Williams, C. Witzig,“Initializing a National Grid Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from the Swiss National Grid Association Seed Project”,8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008),Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008

19. Overview of Achievements

20. Strategic Goals for Next Four Years • Successfully run Grid applications from different scientific domains • Coordinate the establishment, enhancement and maintenance of core Grid resources • Establish SwiNG as the Swiss National Grid Initiative (NGI) and obtain official representation for Swiss Grid interests in established national and international bodies • Establish sustainable funding for SwiNG • Establish and run education and outreach activities

21. Current Working Groups • Active WGs • ATLAS – Sigve Haug, UniBE • High energy physics • Proteomics – Andreas Quandt, SIB • Bioinformatics • Infrastructure & Basic Grid Services (IBGS) – Peter Kunszt, CSCS, and Christoph Witzig, SWITCH • Grid Architecture Team (GAT) • Grid Operations Team (GOT) • Data Management Team (DMT) • Education & Training – Nabil Abdennadher, HES-SO • Swiss Grid School on October 21-22, 2008, in Geneva: http://sgs2008.eig.ch/ • Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG) – Wibke Sudholt, UZH, and Placi Fluri, SWITCH • Grid Workflow – Cesare Pautasso, USI • WGs in preparation • Campus Grid – Cesare Pautasso, USI • Industry Relations – Wibke Sudholt, UZH • AAA/SWITCH projects

22. Overview • Swiss National Grid Association(SwiNG) • National Grid Initiative of Switzerland • Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid(SMSCG) • AAA/SWITCH project • SwiNG Working Group

23. Definition “e-Infrastructure for e-Science” Cooperation projects of SWITCH with Swiss higher-education institutions Emphasis on innovation, cooperation, and sustainability Runtime 2008-2011 Four domains AAA – Extending AAI with Auditing, Accounting and Assurance levels Support for Virtual Organisations (VO) Grid middleware e-Learning Principles Matching funds Contact person at each university Quarterly reporting Matching funds budget Cantonal universities: CHF 8 Mio (1.675 Mio competitive bid, 1.6 Mio SWITCH) Universities of applied sciences: CHF 2.5 Mio (1 Mio competitive bid, 0.5 Mio SWITCH) ETH domain: CHF 3 Mio (2.4 Mio competitive bid, 0.6 Mio SWITCH) Application deadlines University projects: 28.2. or 31.8. recommended Competitive bid: 30.4. or 31.10. required AAA/SWITCH Program

24. SMSCG Project Description • Primary goal • Providing computational resources to solve scientific computational problems • Installation, commissioning, and operation of a computational Grid across several institutions of the Swiss higher education sector • Active involvement of applications from different scientific domains • Key properties • Be multi-disciplinary and user-driven • Include support for users and applications • Foster cooperation between IT infrastructure providers and computational scientists • Employ simple, extensible, and flexible grid middleware • Have integrated user management • Specially focus on security • Be policy-based and sustainable • Grid middleware • NorduGrid ARC chosen as initial middleware • Interoperation with or integration of other middleware will be investigated

25. SMSCG Project Participants

26. SMSCG Project Setup • Responsible institution • University of Zurich • Runtime • Start of project: 1.5.2008, 1.8.2008, 1.10.2008, or 1.1.2009 (depending on institution) • End of project: 31.3.2010 • Total budget (contributed and requested –partly pending) • Manpower: ca. 120 PM • Hardware: 8 resources • Expected number of users • Initially: 15-20 • For mature infrastructure: 50-100

27. SMSCG Work Packages

28. SMSCG Infrastructure Layout

29. SMSCG Software Architecture

30. SMSCG Current Milestones

31. SMSCG Upcoming Milestones

32. More Information • SwiNG • Web site: http://ww.swing-grid.ch/ • Information email contact: info@swing-grid.ch • Announcement mailing list: announce@swing-grid.ch • SMSCG • Project leader: wibke@oci.uzh.ch • Project deputy: placi.flury@switch.ch • Wiki page: https://twiki.cscs.ch/twiki/bin/view/SwiNG/SMSCGWG • Grid computing at UZH • Grid Computing Team: http://ocikbws.uzh.ch/grid/ • Wibke’s home page: http://ocikbws.uzh.ch/~wibke/

33. Thank you! Questions?