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Grids

Grids. Enabling Collaboration in Life Science Research. The Questions. What is a Grid? How do Grid technologies relate to other IT tools? How does a Grid relate to life sciences research? Why are Grids and grits alike?. Grids According to the Experts.

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Grids

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  1. Grids Enabling Collaboration in Life Science Research

  2. The Questions • What is a Grid? • How do Grid technologies relate to other IT tools? • How does a Grid relate to life sciences research? • Why are Grids and grits alike?

  3. Grids According to the Experts “Flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources.” From The Anatomy of the Grid by Foster, Kesselman and Tuecke “A grid is all about gathering together resources and making them accessible to users and applications.” Dr. Andrew Grimshaw, CTO Avaki

  4. The Grid Problem • Multi-institutional collaborative environments • Varied security policies • Heterogeneous resources • Distributed resources • The complexity of the collaborative environment must be transparent to the user • The complexity of the application must be transparent to the systems administrator

  5. The Grid Solution • Enables federated access to data and compute resources • Provides fine-grained access control of shared resources • Provides a unified view of resources that hides the complexity of the underlying system from the user

  6. Related Technologies • The Web • Peer-to-Peer • Distributed file systems – DFS, AFS • Virtual private networks Today these technologies represent point solutions to portions of the Grid Problem

  7. The Life Sciences Problem • Growing number of researchers around the world • Competitive environment with much at $take • Distributed data sources • Varied data privacy definitions and scopes • Varied application privacy definitions and scopes • Varied data formats and update cycles • Heterogeneity abounds – compute platforms, OS’s, databases, storage platforms • Complex trust relationships between collaborators

  8. Bottom Line Life sciences applications challenge us to rigorously define a scalable, virtualized, secure, distributed computing environment …and that is the essence of Grid-ness

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