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Cygrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative Marios D. Dikaiakos University of Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus http://cygrid.org.cy Outline • e-Infrastructures in Cyprus: the Landscape • CyGrid: Objectives and Activities • The Road Ahead The Landscape • Who? – The players: providers and users of e-Infrastructures QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor • Why? are needed to see this picture. – Interests and on-going activities establishing the need • What? – Existing resources supporting on-going e-Infrastructure- oriented activities • How? QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor – Support and Funding are needed to see this picture. Who? Academia & Research • University of Cyprus: – Public research-oriented University (established in 1989) – 5000 undergraduate students, 500 post-graduate students – Faculties of Pure and Applied Sciences, Engineering, Economics and Management – Operates CYNET • Intercollege, Cyprus College, Frederick Institute of Technology: – Mainly teaching institutions – 8000-10000 undergraduate students • Nicosia General Hospital – Largest hospital in Cyprus; Intensive Care Forum • Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) – Established in 1990. – 130 staff members • Cyprus Intl’ Inst. for the Environment and Public Health (CII) – Established jointly by the government of Cyprus and Harvard University in 2005 Why? Research Activities • Physics: Theoretical Biophysics, Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Experimental High-Energy Physics • Chemistry: Materials Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry • Biology: Bioinformatics • Medicine: Intensive Care Medicine • Computer Science & Engineering: Grid Computing, Computer Architecture, Distributed Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Planning and AI • Economics & Management: Computational Finance and Economics • Applied Mathematics: Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography, Multiscale simulation and modeling in Nanotechnology Source: “High-Performance Computing in Cyprus.” prof. Costantia Alexandrou, In Strengthening Computational Science in Europe, NIC Juelich, 16/1/06 What? Existing Resources • UCY: – 420 CPUs spread in several clusters in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering • Frederick Institute of Technology: – 128-CPU cluster (AMD Opteron) • Intercollege: – 20 CPU cluster (Sun, Solaris) • Cyprus Research and Education Network: – Operated by the University of Cyprus – 155 Mbps connection to GEANT2 and 45 Mbps connection to EUMEDCONNECT How? Funding • Institutional budgets: – Basic infrastructures, clusters, networking, support, salaries • National research funding: Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (http://www.research.org.cy) – Funding for purchasing equipment for new Laboratories – Funding of targeted, applied-research programs • European Union: – Information Societies and Technology Program (FP5, FP6) – Eumedis (MEDA) • Currently, there is no national coordinated funding activity on e-Infrastructures and e-Science Outline • e-Infrastructures in Cyprus: the Landscape • CyGrid: Objectives and Activities • The Road Ahead The CyGrid Initiative z Established in 2002 in the University of Cyprus QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. z Main goals: z QuickTime™ and a To establish a Cypriot presence in international Grid TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor infrastructures. are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a z TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor To develop local know-how and expertise on the development are needed to see this picture. and operation of Grid technologies. z To promote the uptake of Grid technologies in Cyprus, the interconnection of existing and future resources, and the deployment of new applications. z To support research in Grid and Global Computing. z Funding from: z EU-IST (APART, CrossGrid, CoreGRID, EGEE, EGEE-II, g-Eclipse) z Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (eScience- CY) z University of Cyprus CyGrid Activities • Infrastructure Operation • Application Deployment • Extending to other Institutions • Training and Dissemination • Grid Computing research CyGrid Infrastructure z Two clusters with 90 CPUs z Gb Ethernet (Micronet copper switch) z 2.1 PB Storage Server (FiberChannel) z Resource Broker and Information Index for EGEE- SEE Federation z Network Connectivity: z Through CyNet to Geant (155 MBps to Athens) z To EMISPHER Satellite Network CyGrid Infrastructure QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. CyGrid Clusters QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. CyGrid in International Testbeds • CrossGrid (2002-2006) • EGEE & EGEE-II (2004-2008) • PlanetLab (joined 2006) • Hosts the Resource Broker and Information Index of the South- East Europe VO of EGEE CyGrid Accounting CyGrid: 1/4/04 - 31/3/06 CyGrid: 1/4/04 - 31/3/06 Total see lhcb Total cms see VO lhcb biomed CY01-LCG2 cms VO biomed atlas atlas alice alice 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 Number of Jobs 0 5000 10000 15000 CPU hours CyGrid Certification Authority • Top level certification authority for Grids in Cyprus: – certified by EUgridPMA, the European Grid Policy Management Authority – member of EUgridPMA since its inception in 2003 – mutually recognized by grid CAs of European countries, the USA, and the Russian Federation • Provides X.509 certificates for authentication and authorization purposes for grid users, grid machines/nodes, and grid services. • Managing authority for Registration Authorities operating at CyGrid Resource Centre • Total certificates issued so far: 80 • Website: http://cygrid.org.cy/CyGridCA Application Deployment • Local Applications: – Quantum Chromo-Dynamics - measuring the properties of gluons -- Done (2004). New effort for a different QCD application about to start. – CompChem (gamess) application for molecular dynamics -- Porting Stage. – Computer Architecture - SimpleScalar Simulator is a tool-set primarily used for hardware-software co-verification, and for building detailed micro-architectural modeling -- Ported, testing phase. – Computer Graphics - Distributed rendering -- Windows(R) application running on Linux using the WINE compatibility layer. Opens the door for Windows-based applications -- In progress – Consulting application developers on how to port their applications. • Data challenges: – Participation in the WISDOM biomed data challenge in 2005 – Participation in the on-going experiment for drug discovery for the H5N1 virus. (committed additional resources: ~40 extra CPU's onto the existing 30% of time allocation for the BIOMED VO) Extending to other Institutions • New Nicosia General Hospital – A DataGrid node is being established at the ICU – Connection to CyGrid infrastructure – Future connection to EGEE nodes in ICS-FORTH, Venizeleion Hospital (Greece); funding pending from Interreg program. • Intercollege – Plans to join CyGrid/EGEE-II with a small cluster • Access through HPCL/UCY given to: – Intercollege – Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) – Frederick Institute of Technology (Physics) • Invitations – CING – Frederick Institute of Technology – Other Labs of the UCY Extending to other Institutions: NGH • DataGrid Node at the New Nicosia General Hospital QuickTime™ and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture. CyGrid Events 1. Grid Day APART Workshop, March 2002. 2. Winter school on middleware, January 2004. 3. IST Concertation Meeting on Grid Research (Jan 2004). 4. CrossGrid Workshop and Integration Meeting, January 2004. 5. 2nd European Across Grids Conference (AxGrids 2004), January 2004. 6. "2004cc: Continuity of Care in e-Health", Conference in ICT Applications & Development of New e-Health Technologies, June 2004. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor 7. Science Day at the Universityare needed to seeof this picture. Cyprus, October QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a 2005TIFF (Uncompressed). decompressor TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor 8. "EGEE: Introduction to Grids" Seminar, Marchare needed to see this2006. picture. CyGrid Presentations 1. "Searching within Large Grid Infrastructures." Parallel Computing Research Seminar of University of Paderborn, Queen's Bay Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus, March 3, 2006. 2. “CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative" by M. D. Dikaiakos. Medical Intensive Care Forum: "Congress Elysium Hotel", Paphos, Cyprus, 27-28 January 2006 (event type: conference; scientific community, medical and health sector, attendees: 150). 3. "CyGrid: Current Status and Future Plans of the Cyprus Grid Initiative" by M. D. Dikaiakos. The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25th January 2006 (event type: seminar; scientific community, medical and biologists, attendees: 30) 4. Science Day II at the University of Cyprus, demos and presentation by George Tsouloupas to High Schools students; 19 November 2005 (event type: open day; community: High school students, sciences) 5. Science Day at the University of Cyprus, demos and presentations by Kyriacos Neokleous and George Tsouloupas to High Schools students; Nicosia, Cyprus 8 October 2005 (event type: open day; community: High school students, sciences) 6. “Grid Explorations” by Marios Dikaiakos, Department of Computer Science Seminar, University of Cyprus; 11
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