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G R I D C O M P U T I N G I N D C U. K A R L P O D E S T A. N A T I O N A L I N S T I T U T E F O R C E L L U L A R B I O T E C H N O L O G Y. G R I D C O M P U T I N G I N C O N T E X T. T H E U . S . A . “ T E R A G R I D “.
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G R I D C O M P U T I N G I N D C U K A R L P O D E S T A N A T I O N A L I N S T I T U T E F O R C E L L U L A R B I O T E C H N O L O G Y
A T H O M E : G R I D - I R E L A N D • Led by TCD, UCC, NUIG 1999/2000 • Over HEAnet - the network/ISP for higher education • “Virtual Organisations” - differently managed projects • Cosmo-GRID
H O W C O U L D D C U B E N E F I T ? • Numerical Simulation of Stellar Jets - T. Downes, School of Maths • NCPST - Centre for Plasma Science: Plasma Simulations • NICB / CA - Complex Systems, growth, evolution • Data intensive: human genome + dna data processing
R E S O U R C E I N T E G R A T I O N • Físchlár Video system, sensor equipment (NCSR), database servers • Different resources - potential for easier research collaboration
W H A T W E A L R E A D Y H A V E • Rogue clusters in different departments: eeng, chemistry, physics, computing • Some work on application software, T. Downes etc. • The networking backbone! (HEAnet and CSD) • … and a phenomenal number of desktop computers
W H A T W E C O U L D H A V E • A ‘coalition of the willing’, ala webgroup, admins, helpdesk • To publicize and learn about DCU’s computing resources • To develop software that takes advantage (nice for class projects) • To construct & learn about new computing resources (ie, our cluster)
E N A B L I N G T E C H N O L O G Y • University research remains the same – do what we’re best at • More economical use of our current resources is what we’re after • A more organised HPC infrastructure could open doors