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Eddie Aronovich TAU, IUCC Dec 2008. Agenda. Motivation R&D infrastructure in Europe and Israel Zisapel Committee ISRAGRID. Back to the Future.
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Eddie Aronovich TAU, IUCC Dec 2008
Agenda • Motivation • R&D infrastructure in Europe and Israel • Zisapel Committee • ISRAGRID
Back to the Future • "Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry."- John McCarthy at MIT's centennial celebrations 1961
Needs and challenges • Decouple Business and Operation • Processing power (usually on-demand) • Large storage with high throughput • Support for virtual communities • Operation integration (Out Sourcing, OFF-Shore) • Service properties - SLA, security, HA/LB
a new vision for R&D • Global challenges with high societal impact • Big Science and the role of “empowered” citizens • Data deluge… born digital material… virtual-labs • Cross-disciplinarity • Spread of skills and competences Based on Mário Campolargo, EGEE 08
community community community . . . . . . . R&D facilities ICT infrastructures for R&D Sharing and federating scientific data Sharing computers, instruments and applications Linking at the speed of the light Based Mário Campolargo, EGEE 08
Coordinates Distributed Resources Using standard, open, general-purpose protocols Deliver non-trivial qualities of service When does it Grid ? Foster, Kesselman/The grid: Blue Print for a new Computing infrastructure
Key Cloud Services Attributes • Off-Site, Thirds-party provider • Access via Internet • Minimal/no IT skills required to “implement” • Provisioning = self-service requesting; near real-time deployment; dynamic & fine-grained scaling • Fine-grained usage-based pricing model • UI - browser and successors • Web services APIs as System Interface • Shared resources/common versions Source: IDC, Sep 2008
ISRAGRID committee • Forum for National R&D Infrastructure (TELEM) appointed Yehuda Zisapel on Jan 2007 to examine Grid infrastructure for Israel. • Members: David Horn (TAU), Julian Satran (IBM), Doron Havatzelet (MOD), Assaf Maron (BMC), EliezerRabinovici (HUJI), Yossi Matias (TAU, Google), ShukiGlaitman (AXC), co-ordinator: Avi Shavit. • Final report submitted on July 2007. • National Research Infrastructure approved the recommendations to establish the ISRAGRID.
General recommendations • Gain knowledge and train professional for the industry. • Increase compute resources and improve their utilization for the benefit of the community • Establish inter-organizational Grid in Israel • Supply infrastructure for the Israeli academia and hi-tech
Modus Operandi • The network would be used for R&D and will be based on the existing NREN. • Users will finance the establishment and operation of the GRID operation. • All R&D entities will be invited to participate. • The network will be available with secure access. • Each partner will finance his own resources (to be shared) and connectivity to the NREN.
Services to be given • Virtual Organization management • Information services • Certificate Authority (EUGridPMA, IGTF) • Monitoring • CERT • Co-Ordination with grid projects and bodies • Network infrastructure
ISRAGRID Administration • ISRAGRID administration will be located in IUCC (local NREN) • Skilled personnel will be hired to provide the needed services for all the users • ISRAGRID is the Israeli official grid representative in international organizations. • Establish and maintain VOs for all the users in Israel. • Helping users to establish new sites and share resources • Maintain the core services and grid related security. • Each site in the ISRAGRID will contribute some resources for the benefit of all.
Network benefits • Accessibility to vast amount of resources that were not accessible otherwise. • Lowering processing cost by sharing resources • Improve resources utilization by balancing between computation demands and (idle) resource availability. • Parallel process in order to shorten the computing time. • Establish user communities (VO) in Israel
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Additional recommendations • Academic teaching – The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) • Encourage Grid training in all institutes that acquire degrees in computer science or engineering have Grid research. • Each University that will give 3 weekly hours course will get additional 100K NIS • The training will be done thru “Gilda” node that will be maintained by the administration. • Academic research – National Science Fund (NSF) • Allocate 3-5 grants in domains related to grid computing (incl. parallel processing, game theory, queuing theory, internet etc.) as long as they have clear association with the field. • The grants application should be submitted according to the regular procedures of NSF and pass the needed academic committees.
eIRG, Lisbon, 12 October 2007 European Grid Initiative • Permanent, common Grid infrastructure • Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure independent of short project funding cycles • Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) • Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide range of R&D and scientific disciplines
From EGI Paper, Version 3.2, August 2006: “Towards a European Infrastructure for e-Science” Vision of EGI • Formation of National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) which unite efforts within each country, providing a single point of contact for coordinated efforts and reducing the management and organisational overhead of international cooperation around Grid computing. • These national bodies will be complemented by a second structure, European Grid Initiative (EGI) coordinating issues on a European scale, including operations management, policy, standards and middleware testing. • Such a structure addresses the key issue of long-term sustainability of the European Grid Infrastructure, ensuring the availability of Grid services to researchers from all backgrounds and disciplines as we move further into the 21st century.
www.eu-egi.eu Prof. Dieter KRANZLMUELLER , EGEE 08 Grids in Europe www.eu-egi.eu