NATIONAL GRID INITIATIVE IN TR-Grid

Prof. Cem Saraç TUBITAK ULAKBIM

TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR-Grid National Grid Initiative

TUBITAK ULAKBIM is leading and coordinating the activities of independent research communities in high performance computing towards a Turkish Grid. TR-Grid initiative was established in 2003 with the collaboration of Boğaziçi, Bilkent and İstanbul Technical universities. Main aims of the initiative are: to give the information to the national user community about high performance computing, grid infrastructure and international grid projects to improve national aplications to build up the national grid infrastructure to take place the international grid projects actively to expand the high performance computing resources with collaboration of academic and commertial participants.

EGI SEE Workshop, Athens 2 TR-Grid National Grid Initiative

Currently, TR-Grid members legally undertake responsibilities with national and international grid project contracts. Grid projects in Turkey have been a triggering factor in the improvement of UlakNet (STM-4 Geant Connectivity, Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to universities). With the start of the SEE-GRID Project our efforts changed to form an advanced national infrastructure that will support both national and international research.

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Our major project to form a National eInfrastructure has been accepted by Scientific Council of TUBITAK. This infrastructure will become operational on the second half of 2006. Objective: To build an eInfrastructure that is distributed among universities which will give computational resources to researchers in all country. To make this huge computing power a part of International Grid projects. To extend this infrastructure nationwide Budget: 500.000 € Planned Infrastructure: Over 500 CPUs, 50 Tbyte storage 7 partners from 5 cities New and upgraded connectivity for all members of the project

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Since accredited in 5th EUGridPMA Meeting in September 2005 TR-Grid CA has been operating and providing certification services of TR-Grid. So far 21 host, 1 service and 38 user certificates have been issued by TR-Grid CA. In order to arise grid security awareness among users related wiki pages are present in native language. TR-Grid CA is the third EUGridPMA accredited certification authority among SEE- Grid project partners.

EGI SEE Workshop, Athens 5 Training and Dissemination activities TR-Grid Initiative SEE-Grid Introductory Meeting ( Ankara - April 2004) Second TR-Grid Meeting for the SEE-Grid Project (İstanbul - December 2004) SEE-Grid Tutorial and Training (İstanbul - December 2004) National Academical Informatics Conference (Gaziantep - February 2005) SE4SEE – Hypermedia and Grid Systems Conference (Croatia – June 2005) SE4SEE – TERENA Networking Conference (Poland – June 2005) Grid Site Administrator Training (Ankara - July 2005) Grid User Training (Ankara - August 2005) First National Grid Workshop (Ankara - September 2005) Grid User Training (İstanbul - December 2005) National Academical Informatics Conference (Denizli - February 2006)

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First workshop for grid computing was held in September 2005. It was a two day event with attendance from 76 people from all around the country, 11 participants from industry, 14 from government and most of them were academicians from various disciplines. The purpose in organizing this workshop was to gather potential grid users and to explain them the essence of grid computing. The evaluation of the workshop shows that this purpose has been considerably achieved.

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SITE NAME CPU Available Storage Type TUBITAK ULAKBIM TR-01-ULAKBIM 128 4 Tbyte EGEE, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID TR-02-BILKENT 8 300 Gbyte SEE-GRID Middle East Technical University TR-03-METU 10 40 Gbyte SEE-GRID TR-04-ERCIYES 6 100 Gbyte SEE-GRID Bogazici University TR-05-BOUN 2 60 Gbyte SEE-GRID Selcuk University TR-06-SELCUK 6 40 Gbyte SEE-GRID TOTAL 160 4,5 Tbyte EGI SEE Workshop, Athens 9 TR-Grid Forthcoming EGEE Sites

SITE NAME # of Cores Available Storage Type TUBITAK ULAKBIM TR-01-ULAKBIM 384 20 Tbyte EGEE, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID Middle East Technical University TR-10-METU 256 20 Tbyte EGEE Erciyes University TR-11-ERCIYES 64 2 Tbyte EGEE Bogazici University TR-12-BOUN 64 2 Tbyte EGEE TR-07-PAMUKKALE 64 2 Tbyte EGEE Cukurova University TR-08-CUKUROVA 64 2 Tbyte EGEE Istanbul Technical University TR-09-ITU 64 2 Tbyte EGEE TOTAL 960 50 Tbyte EGI SEE Workshop, Athens 10 TR-Grid Forthcoming SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID Sites

SITE NAME CPU Available Storage Type Bilkent University TR-02-BILKENT 8 300 Gbyte SEE-GRID Middle East Technical University TR-03-METU 10 40 Gbyte SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID Erciyes University TR-04-ERCIYES 6 100 Gbyte SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID Bogazici University TR-05-BOUN 2 60 Gbyte SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID Selcuk University TR-06-SELCUK 6 40 Gbyte SEE-GRID TOTAL 32 540 Gbyte

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